Your Age is Enough...

Tis the season... for candy grams. Yes, in light of school spirit and some fundraising commitee.. students were selling candy grams. Usually a nice thing to do this time of year... always makes me feel a bit sad for the loser kids who don't get any... but even the kid who I would consider the world's biggest geek got one.. so we're all happy.

Anyway I got a bunch today and one was from one of my students. It reads:

Peace and Love to You... Ms. Jessica, once again happie b'day to u... I will pray for you so you can get a boyfriend faster and married faster also.. hehehe... now, your age is enough for that...

Gotta love that... at last! My age is enough!! I've got student approval! Now on with the task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend in conditions such as these....

Zero attention span today... I mean zero, zip, zilch, nada.... If I wasn't making my kids do presentations.. well I dont know what I'd be doing.. probably telling them long winded stories about Christmas in Canada... but they ARE doing presentations and most of them are SO boring... I can't concentrate and I'm meant to be marking these things... At least I've taught myself not to stare out the window at the passing world while they are up there....

Another kid wrote me one that says: Merry Christmas Miss Jess! You've been a cool english and homeroom teacher. have fun at canada. Now you won't have to "play" Canada at home.

Yes my students know that I "play" Canada... I blast the AC and put on a hoodie and drink hot tea or hot chocolate and almost feel like I'm home... Do you think its unprofessional that my students know I still play make-believe games? I like playing Canada... there is a reason my classroom is one of the coldest most fridge-like rooms in the school.. I'm proud of my heritage! Let's be honest... most of the time the temperature in my classroom has less to do with the fact that I'm forcing kids to "play" Canada and more with the fact that as a white girl.. I sweat a lot in this country!

Trying to write reference letters so these poor kids can get into college! I don't know why it's so hard to write 500 eloquent words about a student.. its just like a big ass report card... so what's the problem? I don't know... probably because I've been emailing, writing this thing, chatting, talking to real people ... I got no brain left! Lucky kids!

Ok so 2 days and 1.5 hours of work left and I'm a free woman!