I'm up early, as usual. Well early for this crowd is around nine. I've had a good weekend. Friday I went to an after work barbecue which was fun. I called Susie early in the day to see if she wanted to hang out. It was the usual white teachers at the bbq when suddenly boom boom boom to of the finest black security guards showed up with Guneiss ( Read more... )

I had trouble at Time Warner when I was accused of lying about when I turned in my modem. I was charged six dollars so I didn't make that big of a fuss. But this lady was like "We check the box every day and we have you checked in on the 20. But I dropped my modem off on the sixteenth, with Frank. So, yeah, their mistake, I had to pay. Damn ( Read more... )

That's the swearword I used with my students today. I think they almost had me crying. Then I yelled at them and told them to enjoy working at McDonalds their whole life. Some were insulted. Most thought I wasn't talking about them. Some days are good, and some days are bad. This was a bad one.

It's sad when your kids refer to Riverwest as the Suburbs

I started my new job today, teaching English to 6,7,8th graders at a charter school in Milwaukee. I was tested and I don't know if stayed firm enough but at least I didn't cry. These kids have the benifit of small classrooms, but that's about it. No overhead projector, no screen to pull down, no window, no real books. I was hired yesterday and ( Read more... )

I don't know what to do
They offered me the job at New Hope High School which is on the third floor of the Milwaukee Institute of Science and Technology, which shares it's floor with Phoenix Charter School, which is divided between High School and Middle School. Which is struggling to be managed by people, no white kids. A few white teachers.

I had a dream that I took the ACTs again, so that i could go to college in another state. I was in a comfortable room but I only had pens and not pencils, I had to find a pencil to take the test and all I found was a rainbow pencil. When I finally started to read the thing a teacher came along and started talking to me. THere was an old guy next ( Read more... )

I didn't know what else to title this so, there it is. Currently Frank and Jason are moving stuff into the new apartment. It's a large one bedroom on 1st and Locust. Not a great neighborhood but hey there's this whole place. And their still only four blocks from me. They were pissing me off by not loading stuff and I had to yell at them. Each ( Read more... )

Drank too much last night. I didn't have much to go, I wrote a lesson plan, finished my book, and decided it was time to get drunk and watch a movie with Will. I've been playing a lot of video games too, but my hand is sore, I want to try to stave off carpaltunnel syndrom as long as I can. Frank called and we chatted then I almost fell asleep ( Read more... )

That's right, yesterday I went out and bought three cans of paint, one for the floor and two for the walls. It still looks like a basement, just a different one. But, I'm going to put up Frank's futon and find some cheap carpeting. Why am I undertaking this project, well because I'm bored and don't want to read my teacher books and also because ( Read more... )