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[in_stead]

I have arrived in Boston, safe and sound. And all the students even made it through, too! There was a slightly hairy moment when our flight from London to Frankfurt was delayed enough that it looked like we might miss the connection, a moment made none the better by the unexpected and clearly temporary security check point set up between the two gates where we all had to take our shoes off and be groped by frightening German security people.

Still, here we are.

I am having an outrageous amount of fun so far. The students are all wonderful kids, so I am, of course, proceeding to be absolutely horrible to them. I mock, I make fun, I poke, and I generally badger. This is how I demonstrate affection, and the students are holding up well.

We went on a big walking tour yesterday, culminating in a trip up the Prudential Tower to the observation deck on top. I got some gorgeous pictures of Boston just as the sun was setting, which I will upload when I get home. We will being doing more walking and touring this morning, then swinging by to visit the Boston Aquarium this afternoon. Tomorrow we do Harvard and the JFK Memorial library, before heading off to New York on Wednesday.

In other news, there is STILL NO SNOW. Where do I have to bloody go to get some winter weather?

I say that, mind you, but on Thursday the all the schools in my district closed for a snow day. There was maybe three inches of snow, all of which melted by Friday morning.

I did my best not to mock. I made good use of the time, instead, and sorted and filed and put up a new display in my classroom and the like. In JEANS, because all the students were gone and so I didn't have to look pretty anymore.

And on that note, it's time to do the wake-up rounds. Being a teacher is FUN.

Comments

[msilverstar]

You are amazing! And I bet your kids like your style better than cloying affection.

You flew from London to Boston via Frankfur???

[in-stead.livejournal.com]

It's massively cheaper.

I think the kids are bemused by me. One group has been informing me at every opportunity that I am clearly fourteen, and yesterday they downed it to twelve, and should stop lying and saying that I am a teacher.

Dorks.

I then allow them to steal my MP3 player back to their end of the bus and moan about the fact that I apparently have "all the right bands but all the wrong songs."

They are teenagers and this is apparently a great crisis for them.

[mcee.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're having fun and didn't, say, lose a kid in transit.

(♥)

[in-stead.livejournal.com]

Yesterday there were to girl CRISES and so I got to earn my keep. In the first, one of the girls got sick (a cold) and I took her to buy cold medication. In the second, one of the girls left her purse in the toilet at the movie theatre and, when we went back for it three seconds later, it was gone. I have calmed, soothed, left appropriate phone numbres, and got quite stroppy with the unhelpful guest services guy at the movie theatre for carrying on conversations with his co-workers about Macdonald's while my student is sobbing at the desk.

Ass.

Great fun! We are off to New York today. :)

[mcee.livejournal.com]

god, who needs kids of your own! you've been good with teenagers, that's quite a knack.

i'm off to a job interview. THINK GOOD THOUGHTS FOR ME!