why i love my job

i've mentioned a lot how much i am loving my job. and most days i really enjoy teaching high school students. and this week has made me love my school and teaching and my students (well most of them). so my school has a pretty good media program and they televise the morning announcements and every morning between the warning bell and start of school they play a song over the loudspeaker and have some random phrase on the tv. usually the phrase is like wacky wednesday! or TGIF... well last week was the week of john mayer and it put me in a good mood and on tuesday they played "crazy game of poker" by OAR and hearing that just brought me back to freshman year of college. and to make the morning even better on the screen it said - GTL baby, gym. tanning. laundry. now for those of you unaware it was a line from jersey shore. and i burst out laughing when i saw this and then my students discussed the show during homeroom. soooo today it said - it's thursday which means jersey shore! and well i just laughed. and then during announcements they were reading something for ski and on accident they said mr. mylastname instead of miss. so of course my students called me mr. allll first period. but i also found it pretty amusing too, so i couldn't blame them.
and my juniors today both first period and later in the day remind me almost everyday why i love teaching. they are fun, are actively learning and are relatively problem free. unlike my sophomores... which are another whole story. my 9th period class welllll frustrated me beyond belief today and they reminded me that your average high school student is lazy and no matter how many times you stress accountability and practically give them the assignment they still won't do it and then give you some great excuses as to why it isn't done. buuuuut i love teaching despite the redic high schoolers sometimes.

and skiing is going well. our first meet was last night and my skiers did well. they placed ok and we didn't come in last, and they all individually skied well and now they are more ready for next week. and it was weird, but i really felt like a coach yesterday. i had the 3 new kids and we were inspecting the course and as i'm explaining the gates and the best ways to attack the course it hit me, i'm a coach. and then as i was at the top before their first run and walkie talking down to coach at the bottom discussing their runs and my skiers all asking me for advice :) so i'm loving getting to see students outside of class and also getting to coach and learning a lot more about skiing.

and in random news... so i've been listening to a lot of darius rucker. he ia country artist and has had some pretty popular songs recently - alright, it won't be like this for long and (my favorite right now) history in the making. sooo i was listening to something and they were talking about his recent success and they said something about hootie and the blowfish...

yea, darius = hootie.

and it wasn't until i heard him sing, i was like omggggg. how have i not realized this before. and apparently my mom knew it when i told her, so i felt kinda stupid that i didn't know.

so here is the song i've been in LOVE with - history in the making. (i can't embed it)

and the lyrics are just increddddible.

and it is almost the weekend. i'm looking forward to it and it should be fun :)