Students...oh how I love them

For some reason every year I've got a student that just has to give me a nickname. It's not always the kid you expect either, sometimes it is the quiet ones that come up with the best ones. My first nickname (that I can remember that is) was "Elkeezy." That is still one of my favorite I have to admit. After that, my second favorite would have to be "Elk-sweet." This year one of my students was trying to come up with a nickname for me on the THIRD day of class. He just walked into class and said he was going to call me "The Elk."' I told him that wasn't original enough so he kept thinking and came up with "Elkenilla" and Elkanono" to be honest I'm not sure on the spelling of the last two. I don't really care, I just think it is funny that kids are always trying to give me nicknames.

1st Week of School

I survived the first week of school. It was tough, getting up early is a beast. When we got to school we realized the AC is "broken." It is uncomfortable to have a class of 40 students with no AC and 100 degree weather outside. It has been tough, the students are miserable, I'm miserable, I don't know if I can keep this up for much longer. Another reason this has been a tough week, we had two tennis matches and both were extremely long. Both Tuesday and Thursday I had 13 hour days and it was rough. Well good news is that so far my students have been pretty good.

Back to School

Tomorrow starts the first day back to school for teachers. This week will be full of meetings and putting back together my classroom. Although I'm not excited to have to get up early again, it will be nice to be busy again. After my work day, I have tennis practice. This will also be the first week tennis will be in the afternoon. For the last two weeks we have been practicing in the mornings, but we have to get used to playing in the heat. Wish me luck...

Tennis Season

This week marks the official start of the Tennis season. This season is looking up, we will have a full team this year. Last year we were two players short of a full team, this year we could have two extra players. We lost some good players to graduation, but it looks like we added some good players to replace them. The only thing is that the start of tennis means the beginning of the school year is just around the corner. Although, I'm not ready for the school year to start...I am running out of stuff to keep myself busy.