But I watched anyway. There was a crowd of about a dozen, and none of us glanced over to watch the cricket practice going on.
The girls won by a lot, and everyone did well.
I’ll try to get to at least one away game this year.
Enough orange post-its!
It’s time for the door to reassert itself against the sophomore onslaught.
Yes to corny comics!
Yes to these ridiculous notes!
Yes to articles!
notices!
photos!
No to Orange Post Its!
1 term down
Grades are coming in. Class lists are almost ready. College has started. In five days we all start over, clean slates, clean blackboards.
We don’t appreciate our clean starts enough. School is kinder than the real world. We should notice.
Braids
very very soon
Another year
That’s it tonight. The real thing starts tomorrow.
Senior appointments – not this week
The slips say Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday, but you got them so fast that some of you are wondering whether you need to come in today or tomorrow. Nooooo. Next week.
(if you have college class that is scheduled this week, you still have to come in)
Juniors have schedules, too
Friday the senior schedules were done (more or less – there still will be changes, but mostly minor stuff like PE or recitation)
Yesterday the junior schedules were almost done (still shifting art and service and PE). Not in time to get mailed home, but good progress.
And today the sophomores…. We’ll see how that goes.
Not quite the summer vacation I had in mind…
Yes, we have schedules
…but no, they are not very good yet.
For the seniors we mailed out drafts on Friday, should get there Tuesday (± a day), but I am still working on the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. Everyone has the right classes (or almost everyone), but some classes are humongous.
Schedules for juniors and sophs didn’t go out because I will need to shuffle so many classes around that it’s probably a one third or more chance that you’ll have some big changes. So why send you something when it is very likely going to change?
In unrelated news, I ran into Dmitri and his brother and Chloe on the train last night. He didn’t seem to be wearing his gold.
I’ll see a bunch of you as you come in for college classes this week…
A new way to count to ten
I am in New Orleans, volunteering to help teachers there. Down the hall from me in the hotel are some women and children — I heard them speaking a foreign language, but I couldn’t make it out. Looked like? Light skin, but with an olive tone, medium eyes. The words, sounds, I couldn’t recognize, but something sounded like maybe it could have been Farsi (Persian) or an Indian language, but they were very light.
Anyhow, today I am making my way down to do laundry, and the mom stops me, says the washers are full, and I finally ask. Romanian she tells me. Romanian or Romany? Romanian (emphatic). And then, you know Romany people? Very few.
Later I see her and the kid in the laundry room. And she did say Romanian, emphatically. So I try unu, dui, tre, patru, my best attempt at one two three four in Romanian. And she corrects me with yek, dui, and I know – this is related to Urdu and Farsi and Hindi – and I get them to teach me to count to ten.
yek – dui – tin – sh’har – pi’anch – sho – efta – oto – nya – tesh.
11 is teshyek, 12 teshdui, 20 bish.
My first words in Romany (Gypsy)
Scheduling Progress – College Course Requests
Little bit of progress – rough cut of senior classes allowed me to process college requests. A little better than 50% first choices – that’s better than last year. But we have to see how the registration process goes. I checked on line and only went for sections with seats available, so, maybe… The problems can still develop, but it’s off to a good start!
