WTF is up with blogger these days? First putting that bar thing across the top of everyone's page OVER the content... which you can get around by going into your template and putting one or two more "br" tags right before the start of the table tag... and Secondly, and no disrespect to Cory, but when did blogger become Xanga? Profile along the side, you have to have a log-in to comment? I'm so glad I saved the original HTML for my blog. Geeky bitching aside...

First week of school down. I hope I'm getting through to my ese vato class. They at least kind of interact with me now. They're still too "hard" to really put effort into the class, but being a gringo que habla has piqued their interest. I've heard that after the first week things get easier. I hope so. Lucky for me, I have curriculum guidelines now. As free-spirited and hippy-dippy as HTH was, the complete lack of guidance really did me a disservice as far as being a planner goes.

There are all these shows and movies about how hard it is to be a high school student, and the funny situations they go through as they come of age, but I'm realizing more and more that teacher's lives are just as bizarre. I don't have any clue how to write a script, but if I did, I would write it from the teacher's POV. I think it would have universal enough appeal. Not everyone is a teacher, but at some point everyone has had a teacher.

Again, planning on being in the Tierra Roja region on the weekend of the 10th. We shall see. But I hope to see everyone again.

posted by MAtt D. at 12:40 PM