Student in the Teachers' Lounge

From Kimani and Miss Davis...

It's finally fall! I have been waiting for this day for a month - the day when room 424 doesn't feel like a swampy sweatpit. Today we opened the windows and let in the fresh air. The students seemed happier and full of life. For advisory today, we went out and messed around in the nearby park. Most of the boys played football while others hung out, sent text messages and one of our talented kids took pictures with my camera. This pic of me and 11th grader, Kimani, is a result.

Today was a fun day, although I'm not sure how much I like teaching first period. On one hand, it's over before you're fully awake. On the other hand, everybody's sleepy and half the students are absent or late. Today we were in the computer lab writing fractured fairy tales. As usual, my students cracked me up with the things they wrote -as off color as they were. ;)

This weekend I plan to RELAX as much as possible. I'm staying in tonight and watching lots of TV. Tomorrow I'm meeting a good friend for brunch. I think my next entry will be about how much I miss brunch, which to me, is totally a San Francisco thing. I almost never eat brunch anymore and that's a crime!

Also tomorrow night I'm going to see Hotel Casseopeia at BAM. It's a play written by Charles Mee and directed by the extraordinary Anne Bogart. I've been looking forward to seeing this play for a long time. Hopefully it will be good!

Enjoy your weekend, everyone, and go out and soak up these fall temperatures that are FINALLY here.