Today I needed a digital story and wanted to use photography (obviously) but I am also using VoiceThread for a class I’m teaching at the college so I figured I would kill to bird (I mean bougies!) with one stone. Here’s my original, really amateur and homemade video “Bloody Bouganvillea Battle”.

Pure awesomeness

Ok so I just had to take the Nerd Test. How fun was that? Go ahead. You know you wanna click below and take it too!

Today was the last day with seniors, and the rest of finish in the middle of next week. I came into my room the other day, and Joe was just sitting there. He gave me this look and I asked what was up. Turns out that he’d never gotten to that point before. Never gotten to the point where he was finishing with a group of students for the entire semester. (Wait until it’s a whole year, Joe!) So today, there were these loud chants and cheers outside the faculty lounge. At first I ignored them, but it got louder. We went out and the seniors had filled the hallway and were tossing around all of their school work that they had shredded and torn up.

The admin and other teachers were right there, but seriously, when there’re 300 kids standing around celebrating you wait a few minutes til it dies down and you send them all along. Afterward we took some photos while the maintenance men found brooms and garbage bags. As we began to clean, the thing that bugged me the most was that the seniors all took off and didn’t help clean up their mess. Two of them did; that’s it. One of my bosses said they could handle paper better than destruction of some sort.

After an hour we got it all cleaned up, only to have some other students yank it all out again and terrorize the quad. The problem here through was all of the water bottles they began throwing, too. A silly senior prank turned into a juvenile junior hooha.

Since my student report cards go out in a few days, let me tell you what comments I did NOT use!

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this student to breed.
3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.
4. Your son is depriving a village some where of an ‘idiot’.
5. Your son sets low personal standards, and then consistently fails to achieve them.
6. The student has a “full six-pack” but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
7. This child has been working with glue too much.
8. When your daughter’s IQ reaches 50, she should sell.
9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn’t coming.
10. If this student were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week.
11. It’s impossible to believe the sperm that created this child, beat out 1,000,000 others.
12. The wheel is turning, but the hamster is definitely dead.