Harry Potter adventures

This week has been a whirlwind of events! But it's been less of the quantity of adventures and more quality. I've taken another step with my students... they sit next to me during lunch and talk about what's going on in their life. They live such interesting lives... especially the 'sports' kids. The basketball team is traveling to the Netherlands this weekend for some games. Goodness, if my away games were in the Netherlands I wouldn't have EVER wanted to play at home! haha and they travel on a coach bus. When i told them i traveled on the 'yellow' bus... their faces... priceless. hahaha it was complete disgust. Anyways, I was talking to one of the juniors i have yesterday. She was having a difficult time with something and i asked her what was going on...

Basically, She was born in Mississippi and lived there for three years, moved to Florida until she was 8, and then her family got transfered to England. She has been here ever since. Well, her family just found out they are being transfered within the next couple of weeks/month to the States. She was basically just discussing with me the difficulties of that whole process. It was really interesting... but sad. She was just talking about how difficult it is to go all the way through this school system until her junior year, and be transfered for her last year in HS. I cannot imagine... but the strange thing was. she was incredibly upbeat and positive. she was saying how she is excited to be closer to family in Texas (that is where they are transferring) and the chance to go to school there. But anyways, it was my first  experience dealing with someone going through a PCS (permanent change of station) and ive always been curious what a student has to say about it. just sounds awful and i cannot imagine,  but the vibe i got was that students are kind of prepared for the possibility. i told her that San Antonio is actually my second favorite place in TX and that alot of Tx kids end up going to college in OK =) haha who knows, maybe ill dirty rush her!

Oh! I have the CUTEST junior student in my AP History class... he has a british accent. his name is Sam. And he talks to me frequently haha today... our topic of discussion was HP7 because i saw that on base last night. So, when you have a British accented student discussing HP with you... your basically in heaven, and im sure this boy is breaking girls hearts! I probably shouldn't say i have favorites, but let's be honest... he is a top choice.

Our bus  rides in the morning are growing more and more inappropriate. haha i laugh, but it's not funny... gah, the students on this bus are just a lil much. Emily had a brilliant idea of bringing our ipods and draining it out. it is amazing how much this really has helped me. i have begun listening to the 20ish minutes podcasts of Andrew Wommack (thanks dad!) and it is perfect timing! the bus ride is about 30 minutes and the podcast normally goes about that long...

Last thing... it has rained for the FIRST time here.... Not. A. Fan. my pants got wet, i had no umbrella or hood... ugh. didn't like it. but we coped! Hope the snow is treating you all well =)