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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

I love my job and it's the weirdest feeling.

When I turned into school today it all of a sudden hit me... I LOVE MY JOB. Weird! Not to say I haven't somewhat enjoyed past jobs, but getting up at 3am for Starsucks aka Starbucks shifts or sitting at a desk all day never got me all that excited. Even student teaching was a bit of a drag (no offense PLU). There is no possible way I could not enjoy this job especially considering...
1. the first thing I see when I walk into school are the purple-people-eaters, also known as my students, walking laps around the track and yelling "Good morning!" from across the field. They wear these purple sweats for P.E. and I'm still not sure why some have to walk in the mornings...probably punishment but who knows. Also, they have stopped saying "Nice to meet you and you?!" and have started saying things that make sense!
2. Crazy Minji comes into my office atleast once a day with a stack of pictures that are either male Korean models or K-pop boy-band group members and asks me to rank each of them by their "handsome and sexiness" on a scale of 1-10.
3. every teacher in my building has expressed that they don't think I eat enough, even though that is all I do, so they in turn bring me snacks all day every day.
4. my students continually say the most hilarious/ridiculous things in class that make it impossible for me to be unhappy. There's a couple of students that are just turkeys but the majority are unbelievably fun.
5. Donald Duck comes into my office everyday after lunch asking for "dessert" because she's figured out that I always have some kind of snack in my bag. So I give her the remainder of my Craisins and she returns the favor by giving me a half eaten piece of Korean candy.
6. students who didn't already have english names came up with their own, which is why I have a Donald Duck. I have some kids with normal names like Judy and Katey...and other ones like Turbo, Firepower, Bart, Simpson, Lisa, Homer, Kim Yuna, and Ashleigh.
7. sometimes I show up to school and am informed that all of my classes for the day are cancelled...like today. So, instead I get to sit in my office all day and plan/read Harry Potter/be constantly fed by teachers/be bombarded by Donald Duck after every class instead of just after lunch.
8. the teachers that I work with are wonderful people. Not only do they feed me constantly, they go out of their way for anything and everything. Yesterday I was telling one of my co-teachers that I'm going to the beach with a friend this weekend, she all of a sudden disappeared, and twenty minutes later she came back saying that she was working on booking me a hotel.
9. to prove that point #3 is true, I just had a teacher hand me a rice cake and a scone the size of my head.
10. the same exact Rihanna songs are blasted throughout the school everyday during the entire lunch hour.

The end.

6 comments:

  1. please don't apologize to PLU, offend away! :) jk jk jk... I am sooooo incredibly HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!

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  2. Ha! You Masters people would say that! Its ok, you're right anyways:)

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  3. That's so awesome Ash (even in your half cheek shorts "HCS")! ;) I'm glad this has been such a great experience for you...what an answer to prayer!

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  4. heather linderman, if you bring up the shorts one more time im going to email you a package with a bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb in it.
    :)

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  5. that would be a pretty high-tech EMAIL - EL DISGUSTOS!!! :) MUAHAHAHAHA

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