(This isn't actually for Ms. Moneymaker, my English 4 teacher).
I'm so used to waking up early in the morning around this time that I decided to talk about how my week went down. It's just that so much happened.
So over a course of one week, the P.E. Special Ed class really started pulling it together by working together as a cooperative team for soccer out in blazing hot sun every day. Mr. Ward, Ms. Sheena, Jonathan, Felicia, and I continued to help them work on push-ups and curl-ups and I thought it was the cutest thing when they all paired up to be partners. Amy and Khaled started to stay with the group more often instead of wandering off by themselves all the time. Yesterday, out of nowhere, Amy offered me a warm hug. You see, she is usually the one who gets angered easily and likes to use profanity around her classmates. But I suppose a light came through yesterday. We also walked to the GYM together for the first Welcome Back Rally. I had my camera ready, but it ran out of batteries. It was an oh-darn-it moment.
But overall, the first rally was a success and I am really glad that I got to watch the people act out the skits instead of putting them together this year. It's always nice to see new ideas getting thrown out because I know people are very creative nowadays and it makes me happy that each class had something unique to present to their audience. You have to love the Sophomores because the two officers who are twins, are geniuses. They have the neatest printing on their class posters, plus the most crazy and creative ideas that can only be thought of by the two of them.
On the other hand, I also got a call-back from Bill, the manager from the tutoring place, on Tuesday night (a.k.a. the night that I decided I was going to play tennis with the team again). It was a surprise because he told me that he knew that I really wanted the job because I kept calling and looking for him in person. Well he was right about that. Therefore I could only forget about rejoining the tennis team and focus on what I was aiming for in the first place all summer at that point.
So I started on Wednesday afternoon and I met Jessica Dam because she was the other tutor. I also met the new kids: Luna, Jordan, Chad, Melanie, Nikki, Kim, Kobay, Shirley, and Vy. In general, they are very nice kids. In my classroom, I have the 1st to 4th graders and everyone really likes to play Castle and Dragon a lot. What that is, is a pretend game of some people pretending to be dragons, and others pretending to be in the royalty house. Overall, it's a pretend game. But don't mistaken this for a daycare center even though it sounds like a total play den. I do try to persuade them to do work by bribing them every day. On the first two days, I bought them all ice cream two doors down from the tutoring center at Pure Water, but that was only because they all did their work for once. I know I can't buy them all something forever though, so I will definitely try to find some other way to try to reward them if they finish their work. Maye a little treasure chest would work out.
Apparently the whole place strongly hates Bill with a passion. So we gave him the codenames of "Flowers" or "Cakes" whenever he comes in to check up on us once a day. I learned that the office lady in the front gives us the warning when he is about to walk in every day at a certain time. Think of The Devil Wears Prada of how everyone freaks out when Meryl Streep or "Miranda" walks in. That's how it is with Bill. But once he leaves, we either go back to learning or playing with noise. I feel that because he is such a control freak, no one has respect for his deep pessimistic personality inside. But I cannot say much because I just got hired so I will see how things go as times passes by. I also put together a binder with dividers inside. In between, I have logs with what each kid did on a certain day, labeled with reading and math work book page numbers that have been completed. I learned to use the copy machine the correct way after Bill gave me a 20 minute long lecture of how to do it on the second day of work.
Although it has only been three short days of a total of nine hours with them this week, I feel as though I have known them for three long years. Each kid in there has a different story behind them and they all deserve to be treated better. They make me want to stay to help them improve on what they to be improved on. I like to listen to them because they always have so much to say and I love the enthusiasm. They're so adorable but it takes a lot of time to sweet talk and bribe them through things to get them to do a little bit of work. But nobody likes to be forced and I know exactly how it feels to be forced to do something when I don't want to. So I don't like to push them to do work three hours straight each day. I mean who can actually work for that long without taking at least a five to thirty minute break? That's what I'm saying, everyone could use a break some time.
With that said, I am also finally starting to pull my Avid Leadership class together. The self tutorial training is currently happening on the Avid website and I am learning how to work with the program and put groups together to start the tutorial processes every day. It sounds like a really amazing opportunity to help more people out in the subjects that I may feel strongest in, so I am very excited. I may not be able to teach the highest level of math or some sort of complicated rocket science work, but I can teach the other subjects that are less difficult for me to understand, at a better-paced level with patience.
Oh, and I got nominated as an NHS member. I almost forgot about it yesterday until I heard the announcements for once in Mr. Jone's usual noisy American Government class. So that is definitely something to smile about. It just tells me that sometimes when you want and wait for something for too long, day and night, you might not always end up getting it. But if you let it be and continue to do whatever it is that you do, you just might end up with that something.
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