The morning started off with two phone calls from the school system \u2013 not substitute calls, but information regarding an overnight shooting near the High School.\u00a0 Because of this incident, one of the major roads would be closed, which also happened to block the two main roads to the schools.\u00a0 The call was merely informing the teachers (first call) and students (second call) not to travel down these particular streets.\u00a0 Aside from that, no phone calls for me, so I made this sort of a rest day.\u00a0 I should have worked on one of my big projects, but I just wasn\u2019t feeling it today.\u00a0 Truth be told, if the layout work was ready today, I would certainly have plowed into that.\u00a0 Instead, I watched TV and played Minecraft before heading off to this evening\u2019s classes.\u00a0 In class, my main teacher was back.\u00a0 It was good to see him again.\u00a0 The class actually started with him giving a series of instructions in Spanish.\u00a0 All the Spanish speaking students had no problem with this.\u00a0 The four of us with no Spanish language skills struggled.\u00a0 He did this to show the English speakers how a foreign student might feel in a typical English only class setting.\u00a0 It was a good exercise!\u00a0 I was proud of myself for finding enough context clues to do what I was supposed to do, but it certainly wasn\u2019t easy.\u00a0 I certainly didn\u2019t lean on any understanding of Spanish to figure things out.\u00a0 The rest of the class was a combination of lecturing and student presentations \u2013 nothing memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The morning started off with two phone calls from the school system \u2013 not substitute calls, but information regarding an overnight shooting near the High School.\u00a0 Because of this incident, one of the major roads would be closed, which also … Continue reading