SBA

I leave for SBA Maryland, going to the Benedictine School in Ridgely MD to work with children with special needs, at 6:00 AM tomorrow morning. That is all, see you in a week

He said, She said, but She said, and He said, She said, that He said ....

On duty tonight. Ran into a situation which quickly became incredibly confusing.

Me, Chris, and Brandon (the RAs on duty) walked through the Uppers and came upon a pretty large crowd of people. As we walked deeper inside the mob of people we realized that a fight/conflict was going on. So we tried to figure out what happened. I saw one of my friends and asked her what happened:

Patty's Story: We were all in my apartment and some kid threw a beer bottle at Daniella's head. So she went up to the kid and hit him in the face. Then everybody came outside and a crowd formed.

Ryan's (the alleged beer bottle thrower) Story: I was at that party and a girl came up to me and just hit me in the face, I left because I'm not gonna hit a girl. So i've been standing here and the girl just keeps coming at me for some reason.

Carla's (Patty's roommate) Story: Yeah that kid (Ryan) was in our room and he dumped a beer over Daniella's head, so Daniella dumped a beer over his head. Then he pushed her, so we all pushed him out of the apartment. Then he just started yelling and calling her the C word.

Daniella's Story: This kid just dumps his beer over my head, so I dump the rest of my beer over his head. Then he started calling me the C word and everyone kicked him out. Now he won't leave and he just keeps yelling at us.

Bobby's (Ryan's friend) Story: We were at that party, and this girl (Daniella) walks past Ryan in the hallway and bumps into him. She yells at him saying something like don't push me. Then she dumps her beer on his head, so he dumps his beer over her head. Then we left and some other girl charged us and sucker punched him in the mouth.

Kyle's (Neighbor) Story: I heard a kid (Ryan) was trying to steal Lauren's (Carla's next door neighbor) TV and then everyone started fighting him to get it back.

And I think there were maybe 2 other differing stories. Just a weird night on duty, still no idea what happened. But it worked itself out and everybody left.

* All names were changed (suckers)

DJ Hero

Today's theme was Bad Remixes. Apparently all the songs were taken from DJ Hero (like Guitar Hero) but they were all horrible.

Anywho, my classes went well. I had the kids write an essay on the movie we just watched to explain whose side they were on in the conflict. Then we had a discussion/debate in class and it went really well. I got everyone involved, and i was very happy with the result.

Otherwise things are good.

short update.

Turn and walk away

Today dragged on for so long. We continued with the movie and listened to presentations again. But again, today was awkward in the teacher's room at lunch again. But not awkward to me....

LSD teacher from yesterday, "So me and Matt were on Caf duty today, and this kid walked past me with his shirt completely un-tucked. So I said, 'you should tuck in your shirt before you go to class,' he looked back at me, and i said, 'tuck in your shirt.' and then he just turned and walked away from me. So i caught up to him and started yelling at him, I don't know what got into me but I was like, 'what the hell do you think you're doing ... blah blah blah.' then Kerry ran over when she saw me start to yell at the kid. she ran up to me and was like, 'stop it, he's deaf."

So awkward for him, hilarious for me.

Creepy!

So yesterday was pretty bland. We continued to watch movies and do presentations in four of the classes. But what was weird was in the teacher's room.

"So, Tim, know how on the last performance of a play some actors might screw up lines on purpose to make their co-stars ad-lib? What do you think we are going to do to you on your last day?"

"Yeah! like have you ever taught while on LSD!?"

Umm, excuse you? what? get away from me?

And then lunch was over so I left the room

very awkward lunch

Two in a row

So no school yesterday because of Presidents Day. And no school today because we have a SNOW DAY! (complete with no snow)

No Idea

So here were some of today's songs. I couldn't hear the last two of the day but here are the others:

Journey "Don't Stop Believing"

Boston "More Than A Feeling"

J Geils Band "Love Stinks"

Liz Phair "Why Can't I Breathe"

The Beatles "Twist And Shout"

Michael Tolcher "Sooner Or Later"

The Beatles "Hey Jude"

Three Dog Night "Joy To The World"

I have NO IDEA what the theme of the day was. If you can figure it out leave a comment.

Beyond that, today was good. We had a half day and me and my cooperating teacher pretty much did zero teaching. First and fourth periods, the kids did presentations, second and third period the kids went to the library and did research, and fifth period the kids watched a movie. Pretty good day, periods were only 35 minutes each.

So that's three weeks of student teaching done, only nine weeks left. But i'm seriously not counting. monday off for presidents day and then the next week is february vacation.