Sweet sweet October

Sooooo.............
October has been an amazing month, last Tuesday and Wednesday we had off, we have Thursday and Monday off, this Monday/Tuesday I didn't have to teach because of professional development. Sweetness for sure.... this past weekend Nick and I went apple picking! It was a beautiful fall day and it was so much fun. :) So teaching this year has been interesting... it's really made me realize how awesome my kids were last year.. they had personality, a lot of it... even the bad ones made me laugh at times... My kids this year are... well... maybe they'll surprise me. I definately plan on coming back for my last year's kids graduation next summer, these kids I'm teaching now... not so much. Speaking of graduations... Oprah is supposedly speaking at Duke this year. Good times... Well back to enjoying not really teaching and loving fall in the city.

rants

I hate Mondays, especially Mondays that suck. I know, deep, but this one did. My classes seemed to drag on forever.... my class of freshmen was so bad at some point I was screaming at them, I know not my finest moment. I just get tired of trying to be everything, I know we all do. A good daughter, sister, friend, girlfriend, roommate, teacher....... ahh. Apparently I'm just not good at all of them, lol. There's one teacher at our school, who looks like she weighs 50 pounds, but is so sweet with the kids, and super patient. My friend Kelly and I decided she spends time thinking about them instead of eating. Mean, I know, but true. My boyfriend is currently not speaking to me.. which is awesome, I'm not even sure why really, and I just don't know if I want to go to work tomorrow. The one ray of sunshine I have is that next week is a three day Jewish holiday, man do I love Jewish people. Well it's really two days (Tues/Wed) but I decided to use all 14 of my days off this year, so Mon/Tues/Wed it becomes. :) I felt so much like Office Space today when someone says, oh do you have a case of the Mondays? Sigh.
Tomorrow will be better.
I hope.

Africa...

So, I'm back into the swing of school which is always a bit of a struggle...
This year I'm teaching four sections of sophmores and one of freshmen...
My freshmen class looked precious the first day and soon proved otherwise (stories to come), my sophmores looked crazy and are... the only students I truly enjoy seing at this point are my old students... It's just so much nicer to see them now that I don't have to teach them... so I attempted in losing some weight this summer after being a blob this year (I ate out allll the time!) and it worked a little...
so I'm watching the juniors while their teacher is at a meeting, they say, "Miss you looked like you lost some weight! Did you go to Africa this summer?"
It's weird but exciting knowing... not another first day/week of school to get through ever! Teaching has been quite an adventure, but I don't think I could do another year of it.... I have new found respect of course for teachers that do this for real for years in the Bronx and other places like it... I had my students write observations about their neighborhood leading up to talking about the scientific method... I got observations like, "I see gangsters, I see police cars, I see people smoking up"and so forth... interesting...
There are at least two seniors in my school who are pregnant (this is a big deal because only 30% of our students are girls, and there are only 300 students in total.... When one of the senior teachers asked one of them what it felt like to be pregnant... she said it feels nice? Nice? Mmmmm at 17 I don't think that's one of the words I would use. Both of them wear these tight little shirts so you can obviously see and you can also see their bras through their shirts.... interesting...
Unfortunately my school is no joke either.... We have already run out of paper, that's right, it's not possible on the 5th day of school to get any paper for our students.... again interesting.... what they do with the budget who know...
One of the best things about my new apartment is of course no more craziness on the roommate end, but that we have Tivo! I'm off to catch up on gossip girl.
Much love..

Here I am..

Okay so the truth about this whole blogging thing is a started it last year...... but obviously wrote nothing in it. Then with Nick (my boyfriend, I hate when people talk about people without explaining who they are), I attempted to start a Things Preppy Black people like blog, sort of like the Things White People Like deal... but despite our laundry list of awesome ideas, I didn't quite get that started either....
Kellyann has now inspired me to actually write in this original one I started! So now even though some of you have disappeared off the fact of the earth (Sara) you'll at least still now about my life. :)
So here I am back in NYC getting ready for round two. I'm convincing myself that teaching is not that bad... my school is not that terrible, and my principal is not the psycho bitch I remember her as....
The good thing is I am still in love with the city, and like where I'm living much better. I moved the beginning of July, which was quite an ordeal here.
All and all, things are good at least until post labor day when I unfortunately have a job. I'm going to miss this no working during the summer deal...