Tuesday I went in to the office at OPRF to get a parking pass. So I now can park in the faculty lot for the month of November at least. No more paying meters! Why didn't I do this the first day?? Tuesday's class was fine. I'm starting to warm up to being there, so I've started talking to the kids more and helping them, rather than standing awkwardly in the corner wondering what I should be doing while the teacher walks around in her haphazard way. I don't mean to sound bad about my CT. I say she's disorganized, but it's more that *I* couldn't function in her chaotic manner, it works for her. Then Tuesday's class was fine. It continues to irritate me that Tuesday, the day I only have to be at UIC for an hour is the day that consistently gives me the most trouble finding a parking spot on the street so I end up having to pay to park in the lot. Grrr. Class was a guest speaker who talked about Math and Diversity Education. Yes, I fell asleep.
Wednesday I observed again. The teacher brought in macaroni and ham for the 3rd/4th year kids because it was Emil's favorite meal in the book, and she bought in jelly filled donuts because they were talking about Berlin. I ate one to be polite, but I really don't like jelly filled donuts. I don't really like jelly filled anything to be honest. I'm still working up a lesson on reflexivverben and 'was machst du gern in deiner Freizeit" to do with the kids coming up.
Wednesday's class was alright. We had a guest speaker who talked about NCLB, which was ok. All he really did was bash the hell out of it and say how much it sucked from a teachers and an administrator's opinion. But we already knew that for the most part so it wasn't really useful, but then he talked about how to act during an interview, the kinds of things that principals look for and the kind of questions we should be expected to answer and the kind of questions we should be asking, and that was really useful, so it evened out. The dude was wired like an eight year old on a sugar high though. He's the new principal of a school opening in the far western suburbs next year, so he's getting to build it from the ground up, which i suppose would make me rather excited too, so I won't make too much fun of him.
After class I met up with Rory at the Westmont Chipotle for Boo-Rito Day. Apparently at Chipotle if you show up dressed like a burrito, burrito bowl or taco on Halloween you get a free burrito. Well I can't say no to that. I wrapped an off-white towel around me, put strips of green, red, brown, and black construction paper all over my shirt and foiled my torso and head. Rory had a giant necklace burrito bowl, complete with red wire basket, and thus we dined. I was a little disappointed in my counterparts from the burrito eating world who merely wore an aluminum foil hat, or one tiny band of foil around the waist, but I suppose it's ok. Then we went to the Wheaton one to get lunch for today :) after the burrito eating, I went back to Oak Park to join up with Juarez, Kathy and Tom for some zombie movies. We watched Planet Terror, half of that Grindhouse movie from last year, with Bruce Willis, Freddy Rodriguez, and Rose McGowan. It wasn't that great, but I've seen a lot worse. After that we watched the original Dawn of the Dead, not the remake, but the George Romero version. It was laughable, but entertaining.
Which leads me to my Poll of the [Insert Time Period Here]:
What do you enjoy more, Zombie movies, Vampire/Werewolf Movies, Stalker-slasher movies, or classic horror movies (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. of the 20s/30s)?
Today's objective is homework and some major room cleaning. I have a floor!
