Quite a Week!
First of all:
Happy Birthday, Mom!
I hope Dad's taking you out to an amazing restaurant tonight...
Ok, it's been quite a week this week. Returning to classes after the semester break, I already felt behind. I had some friends over for the Super Bowl on Sunday, so I didn't quite finish everything I wanted before classes on Monday...
Next, one of my former students, William Wagner, passed away on Tuesday night. He was the class of 2004, so he was a junior in college at Claremont McKenna. His younger brother Jeff is in my AP Calculus class this year. Will was a fantastic student and person. And his brother is also a great kid. His brother has been coming to school and playing the whole thing very low key. But he's got a great group of friends to support him. The memorial service is this Sunday afternoon at the college. Immediately after the service I'm supposed to be in Pasadena to see a few of our faculty in a dance performance at the Pasadena Civic Center...
It was especially strange for me, because on Wednesday I had three other students miss my classes to attend funerals. Not exactly cheerful.
To counterbalance the sadness, it was Teacher Appreciation Week down here. Each teacher is assigned a "secret appreciator" from the Student Senate. On Monday, the faculty was treated to a Mexican lunch - yum! Wednesday, the Student Senate hired a masseuse to give 10-minute massages. Aaaahhh! And today we were treated to bagels and fruit for breakfast. At various times during the week, my secret student delivered a starbucks gift card, a Kenny Chesney CD, and some Hershey's chocolate. It turns out it was one of my Precalculus students (another girl I think is amazing!) Have I told you how much I'm enjoying my students this year? ;-)
Anyway, here is the note she gave me with my last gift:
Happy Birthday, Mom!
I hope Dad's taking you out to an amazing restaurant tonight...
Ok, it's been quite a week this week. Returning to classes after the semester break, I already felt behind. I had some friends over for the Super Bowl on Sunday, so I didn't quite finish everything I wanted before classes on Monday...
Next, one of my former students, William Wagner, passed away on Tuesday night. He was the class of 2004, so he was a junior in college at Claremont McKenna. His younger brother Jeff is in my AP Calculus class this year. Will was a fantastic student and person. And his brother is also a great kid. His brother has been coming to school and playing the whole thing very low key. But he's got a great group of friends to support him. The memorial service is this Sunday afternoon at the college. Immediately after the service I'm supposed to be in Pasadena to see a few of our faculty in a dance performance at the Pasadena Civic Center...
It was especially strange for me, because on Wednesday I had three other students miss my classes to attend funerals. Not exactly cheerful.
To counterbalance the sadness, it was Teacher Appreciation Week down here. Each teacher is assigned a "secret appreciator" from the Student Senate. On Monday, the faculty was treated to a Mexican lunch - yum! Wednesday, the Student Senate hired a masseuse to give 10-minute massages. Aaaahhh! And today we were treated to bagels and fruit for breakfast. At various times during the week, my secret student delivered a starbucks gift card, a Kenny Chesney CD, and some Hershey's chocolate. It turns out it was one of my Precalculus students (another girl I think is amazing!) Have I told you how much I'm enjoying my students this year? ;-)
Anyway, here is the note she gave me with my last gift:
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