I like school

Hello family, lovers, and friends!

Thanks for taking a quick second to check out my blog, I know some big holidays are coming up (obviously the most important of which is Dec. 14, my birthday) so I really appreciate your taking time out of your busy schedule (planning the best party for me ever) to pop on over to my little corner of the internetz!

Now that I'm back in high school, I've undergone some surprising changes.  Most importantly, I REALLY LOVE MONDAYS.  And I don't particularly like Fridays.  This is 100% because my students on Mondays are mega-fun and at the very least, mildly interested in learning English, whereas my Friday students couldn't care less about my existence.

In my attempts to keep everything as fun as possible for everyone, my most recent lesson plans have been based on music - specifically pop/rap music.  So far, I've done a lesson on Daylight by matt and kim, Never Forget You by Lupe Fiasco, and tomorrrow is New Day by Kanye West and Jay-Z.

Last week I got to go to a new class and do a lesson on slang.  The teacher has studied in London and asked me -the day before- if  I could pronounce things in British vs. American accents, so that her students could hear the difference.  I politely informed her that this idea was unfortunately impossible because I am TERRIBLE at accents, and proposed an alternative activity (students guessing which terms were American and which were british - chips/crisps, fries/chips, etc.). She agreed enthusiastically to this alternative....Yet when I got to class, she asked me again in front of everyone to demonstrate the different accents.  HOMEGIRL TEACHER I'm not British!!  I've never even been to the UK!  You've spent more time there than I have!  Whatever, it was fun anyways.  Since I had never met the class before, they got to ask me any and every question that they had about me or America or Americans.  One student asked me, "Do you own a gun?"

Also, some of my students choose American names for my class.  Which means on Thursday I have class with both Usher and Denzel Washington.

More later, lovers!!!
xoxo
Samantha