The Halfway Mark

January 23rd, 2009. End of the first semester of school. Hurray! It seems like the first half of this school year has gone by pretty slowly but then it probably always does. The second half will fly-bye no doubt.

The high school is on a shortened day schedule during finals and each class lasts about two hours. What to do with my students.... The last thing they needed was another test to stress out about so I went to plan "B." I decided it would be fun to take each class out to lunch (on separate days of course) to an ethnic restaurant where they would than have to order themselves and speak English with me. Not such a good idea as it turned out. On the first day we had all agreed to eat at the Thai restaurant. As we were getting ready to load into my car, three of the four student let me know that they do not like Asian food. I thought, okay we'll do Mexican instead. The only problem was that the one Hmong student in the crowd, and I use that term loosely, did not like Mexican or anything else for that matter, except for of course Thai food. So now what. Crescent City has MANY restaurants, BUT they are all Asian or Mexican or so it seemed. WE ended up going to a sandwich/salad place where at least three of the four students found something palatable. Sigh!

The second day was deemed Mexican lunch day. This time I was prepared! Before leaving for the car I sat my all Hmong students down to discuss their prior agreement with me again. This time the plans were changed to Chinese cuisine. At least they were all okay with that. Boy am I glad I like just about anything. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be doing this again for a final. From now on I may need to stick with a pot-luck of sorts on school campus. That way everyone will bring something that at least he or she will like.

John is my little boy in the candy store. We just received our new 52" LCD television. He has been wanting one of those for years and our time has finally come. It gets hooked up tomorrow morning in plenty of time for the Super Bowl next weekend.

I know, no pictures. We have been too busy to take any because we've been busy with all the wiring for the TV. Maybe next time.