Wow... it's been almost exactly a year since I last posted.
I guess I didn't have to worry too much about getting addicted, eh?
And now I'm here at Jax's house and he was posting so I decided to update...
I'm back to teaching summer school again this summer. It should be great fun... Hopefully this year I won't get all the crap from parents bitching about having a gay teacher. Hopefully.
This year I'm not teaching the normal summer school for the kids who failed the first time around.
This year, I'm teaching deaf kids who are in summer school because they want to learn more. So I can put the sign language I've been learning since my... little... *ahem*... accident... that turned me into a near-mute... to good use.
In the first place, this will be good because I won't be teaching a bunch of kids who don't want to be there; in the second place, half of the kids won't have relatives who went to high school with me like the kids I was teaching last summer, so they won't know I'm gay (as long as I manage to keep the flaming behavior under control!); and in the third place, even if they do find out, deaf families- actually, most people with disabilities, as I've been discovering since I became a member of that community- tend to be more accepting.
So I think I'll have a much better time this summer than I did last summer.
Teaching-wise, at any rate. Last summer's experience was so discouraging it almost made me not want to be a teacher anymore.
Almost. I don't think anything could really accomplish that, though.
So, from that point of view, this summer will be better.
But in other respects...
I miss Topher! Who I spent all last summer with... the only boyfriend I've had who I've truly been in love with. And I screwed it up. Of course.
So in that sense, this summer can't compare... | 