oh miss e!

today i met all my students.

and their parents.

talk about being baptized by fire. the teacher i'm replacing "isn't feeling well" (so we've told all the children b/c it's a really personal issue) so she won't be coming back. she was unable to make it to open house.

so on the same day that i meet the children, i must introduce myself to the parents and conduct the whole open house.

needless to say it is 21:00 and i am two steps away from my bed.

there is one little guy i feel really sorry for, already. he loves math but i can't get him to do anything else. if it's writing he just sits there. i was trying to get him to write this afternoon and i noticed how long his fingernails were (longer than mine!) and just how generally dirty he was. i hope tomorrow he's not in the same clothes as today. though maybe while the other kids are at lunch i can get him to wash his hands really well and show him how to trim his own nails?

oh oh and oh. haha. the same problem boys from my experience last year, at my previous school, are at my current school! today i saw david sitting outside during recess. he recognized me. he is in the third grade bilingual - not my class. fortunately. he is so difficult to work with but such a sweet kid. and then i met the fourth grade bilingual teacher, who has his brother (who was always out of his seat last year and very difficult to deal with. but still a really nice kid.)

ok enough. bedtime!