It's Complicated

So today was for the most part uneventful. I was going to do a lesson on the growth of cities, trusts & big business, and political cartoons for the lunch period. I was still finishing up my lesson plan during second period. I had to print off a few cartoons for the class for the group project I had designed, but today all the printers were down (awesome). I didn't think I was going to be able to do my lesson, and I didn't have a back-up plan (I need to start having one). But luckily, during the next period, the printers came back online and I was able to print off and make copies of all the cartoons for the students.

I did my lesson and the students were really receptive. For homework, which they started in class, they had to create their own political cartoon. A few of the students had really great ideas and everyone got into the project. I was excited about that.

During lunch, I went down to the teacher's room and sat at the same table as "Coach" (or at least, that's what we'll call him in this blog). Coach is a full-time substitute teacher. And before I met him, some of the teachers tried to help me brace myself by telling me stories about him. The best one was:

Coach (will opening up a brown paper bag for lunch): "Chinese food! Seriously! My wife knows I hate Chinese food. Why in God's name would she give me Chinese food for lunch!"

Other teacher in the room: "Coach, umm. That's my lunch, not yours"

But when I sat as his table he had just started explaining the entire plot of "It's Complicated" in great detail to another teacher. "You know that movie? It's really funny. It's with Meryl Street and the guy everyone loves to hate...." (I don't think anyone hates Alec Baldwin or Steve Martin, so I have no idea who he was talking about)

But yeah, it was funny I guess. Fingers crossed I get a desk tomorrrow