Family Guy...

There is a show that most of our grade level watches regularly. I have never seen it... ever. I had no idea it even existed. I was introduced to it today, in a humorous, albeit sad, way.

Family Guy... has anyone ever seen it? From what I know now, it is horribly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18, but truly, no one should watch it. Throughout this week a few of my students and other random 4th graders have been quoting lines from a kid named Stewie, off of Family Guy. They have been drawing pictures of him, cutting them out, and taping them to the front of their t-shirts. Odd kids... today one student drew a picture and wrote this comment under it: "If you act like it, I'll call you it, ya f_g." (insert a vowel in there)

Now my question... what parent would let their 4th GRADER watch a show that calls people names? I admit, I tend to make off color jokes, but GUESS WHAT??? I'm 25 years old... these kids are 9! I about fainted when I saw this work of art, and had to ream the whole class and threaten detention for those who chose to keep on drawing and quoting this awful show! I also told them they were not allowed to watch it anymore... I know, I know, that won't do a thing, but I had to say it!

On another note, I am going skiing! There is a perk to living in this retarded state! The 4-5th graders from my school go night skiing in February. The kids have to pay $25, but teachers go for free! We have to chaperone, but get to ski and the whole bit! How cool is that? Finally, something to brag about to all of my Oregon teacher friends... there hasn't been much yet!

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Trying to get back into the swing of things...

So this week our student is on a new program to try to make him do actual school work. Unfortunately they waited 18 weeks into the school year to make this transition for him, so he is NOT interested! The second day of his "work" he got to school early and threw away all of his work from the day before, hid the clock that they have for him, and threw away his folder of tasks. Totally funny...

Today when they tried to make him work he walked up to the white board at the front of the room and wrote in big block letters "SCHOOL WORK" and put a big red circle with a line through the middle... funny kid!

Things are going better! I hung out with a friend from Western Baptist, who I haven't seen in like 5 years, and it was fun catching up! We are planning on having a Mathi-Poo movie night, to watch the movies that we made at WB starring us dressed like teachers! I bet you didn't know that I impersonated our school president, the Hofferoo, and starred in 2 movies! We also had a choir director impersonator, a history teacher, one of the Bible staffers, and "the love doctor". If you went to WB, you probably know who these people are. It sure is fun to reminisce! (How do you spell that word???)

I really enjoyed my snow day! I didn't get anything accomplished that I needed to, but it was a nice break indeed! The weather truly was bad, so it was good that we didn't go in. 40 schools in the area cancelled! There were still slide-offs happening as I was driving home from school tonight. I passed 2 of them... probably from California!

snow...

Well we are back to school. The last two days have been pretty good! Much better than the days before break, for sure! When I pulled into Idaho I was so bummed! I miss everyone from Stanfield, we had some fun times this break! I had a good time catching up with old friends and seeing everyone that I have been missing.

Yesterday morning it snowed for like an hour and gave us 2-3 inches! It took me 45 minutes to get to work (a 15 mile trip) because I went on the regular roads due to the lack of plowing in this state! I was late, but so was everyone else!

This morning I turned on the news when I woke up to hear that "the snow will be starting in 15 minutes". Sure enough, at 7ish am, the snow began, and now at 6:20pm, it hasn't stopped! I have never seen it snow for so long! It is kind of windy, so the drifts are insane! I think we have about 6 inches or so. Indoor recess is never a good situation for a teacher :(

At the end of the school day the principal announced that everyone needed to take their phone tree home just in case they cancelled school. Apperantly that is the plan, so if it keeps on snowing, we will have tomorrow off! I will be packing up my apartment and using that time to clean and do homework! I hate staying home and being bored!

Here are some pictures of our winter wonderland...