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So, today I received my midterm grade for Foundations. I was about to have a heart attack as she began the Doomsday Grade Speech, of which many teachers seem to succomb to before passing back tests. The whole, "Well, many, MANY of you did pretty badly on this test, etc. etc." just about killed me. I had only been able to study the night before, and the class itself is the bane of every Education major. At last, when I finally recieved my test, I refused to look at it, instead handing it to my friend Molly...she looked at it...and scowled at me. She shoved it at me and I looked at the grade. I had gotten 100%. I nearly died with relief. I do not generally get perfect grades...actually, I almost never do. So this was a most welcome surprise :D.

In other news, I made a terrible faux pas during Human Geography. I was making my speech to the class, and I mentioned something about RP-ness. Say that aloud. Yes. Indeed. So, the whole class was desperately attempting to smother their laughter and I was at a total loss as to WHY. Until after the class. When everyone informed me. It was rather awful, but pretty hilarious.

The RD (Marti) ate lunch with Molly, Anya, and I today. We had a picnic outside on the lawn, and it was pretty fun. A girl who came to Geneva from China came over to us and was talking to the RD about something with her insurance. Or trying to. She has only just come, and so her English is not very developed yet. Also...there was an issue with eye color. She stared at the RD for a second, then asked, while pointing to her own eyes,
"Why are your eyes that?"
RD, "Erm....because my mom had blue eyes?"
*blank stare* "What? Everyone has this color."
"Well, I have irish blood!"
*more blank stare*
Us: "People in other places have different eyes, and they mix and make new colors."
"Ohhhhhh." *quizzical look, leaves*
Us: *dying*
I guess that brown eyes are VERY common in China.

Also, the RD decided it would be good of her to honk her horn VERY LOUDLY as my roomie and I exited the building. I may have, erm, screamed and flailed. She seemed to find this very funny. *glares*

And...thats about all. I am supposed to be reading the Inferno, but its really gross and rather boring. My roomie is sitting her eating her pen and attempting Hebrew.

So today was a much better field experience. There was minor Terrible Meanness, and the class was as cute as ever. They were working on recognizing details in stories and the teacher asked,
"If a grandma is baking with a kid, she needs to be....what?"
Student's answers:
"Pretty?"
"Powdery?"
"Point?"
"Joyful?"
"A good cook?"
The answer: Patient.

The end assignment was a sentence or two about why they would or would not like a grandma like the one in the story. Most of the boys' answers were: "Because she made foxtails [a cookie or some type of dessert]." The girls all wrote answers like, "Because she was happy and loving and joyful and was so nice." A couple boys also wrote answers such as, "No I would NOT like to have a grandma like that because cooking is stupid and boring."

An interesting comment I got from a little girl during Library time: "You are very.....I don't know... *pause*...interesting." Me: "Um, thanks?" :D I was also told that I was going to be an amazing teacher because I was nice and pretty and had "lovely" hair. 3rd graders are VERY easy to please.... :D

Oh. My. Goodness. I think I was either spoiled with the great teachers I have had...or the teacher I have been assigned to is, in Educational Psychology words, "an Aggressive Teacher". I was assgined to the third grade, and so I took it for granted that the teacher would be pretty nice, since the kids are still small and pretty cute. Well...this was not so. The teacher was belittling, sarcastic, and hostile. I have never been in a classroom where things were so tightly controlled that it seemed like more of a machine than a place of learning. A really bizrre thing happened too. This one kid didn't have his homework. The teacher made him stand up, and then pretended to whack him with a "wet noodle". It was taken seriously by the class, and I am assuming was used as a deterrent through the embarrasment of having to stand up. I am hoping that my teacher was just in a bad mood today...hopefully? Anyways, the kids were Super-Cute.
Questions I got:

• "Are you married?"
• "Do you have a boyfriend?"
• "Are you in *gasp* Middle School?"
• "Do you like College?"
• "Do you have to learn math?"
• "Why are you HERE??"

• *points to hand sanitizer* "When you have germs, you press this."
• "You could be my mom."
• "When we go to lunch we play games and I am part animal cause I climb like a monkey and so I am an animal..."
• "I'm part dog."
• "I don't think Ms. __ likes me."
• Me: How long is computer? Girl: About *thinks* two hours. Me: Um, how long is lunch? Girl: I think one hours *nods sagely* Me: *has suddenly understood all the lectures about child development*
• "When I grow up, I want to be in a museum, and I have this box at homes that I will give them cause it has a rock that is really a tree and it looks SO COOL."
• "I don't like the Dewey Decimeal System, it's stupid. Why can't we just use the computer?"
• "You are soooo pretty!"
• "I am in love with Zac Efron."
• "I could do your hair for you, I'm really good at hair."
• Me: How long has this school been around? Them: Sooooo long. Like forever. I mean, I have been here since KINDERGARTEN. Me: *smothers laughter* Yes, that's a pretty long time.
  

I have not posted in quite a long time, so here is a rundown of those mundane things that you would never remember to talk about in a formal conversation, but for some reason find perfectly right to blog about. It is a mystery of nature. :D
Anyways...the past couple weeks I have:

• Watched Finding Nemo and Ella Enchanted with my roommate who is utterly devoid of knowledge of modern movie marvels (I ask, "Have you seen..." She, "No." :D)
• Found out that dry erase marker is not easily removed from dorm hand sanitizers (nail polish remover is your only hope)
• Played with Greek (Koine)
• Chalked stuff in the new Circle outside of the freshmen girls' dorm
• Made a sword
• Rejoiced in Alexs' Chicken Dumpling soup
• Enjoyed the Fall weather that makes living on the third floor of an un-air conditioned dorm bearable
• Ate pomegranate (its wonderful!!! :D)
• Changed Jeff's water
• Etc.