Imagine this...
It's finals week at school. You are trying to teach kids who have had virtually no childhood literacy exposure how to speak English... which is either their 2nd or 3rd language. Due to random school activities, they have had two, maybe three, classes of English in the last month. Aka... they have heard and/or spoken English for an hour or hour and a half in nearly thirty days.
They're not doing as great as you want.
You find yourself hating grading and sad that they can't figure it out... and reevaluating your teaching techniques with every ounce of your brain power.
You eat soup with a napkin? What? SPOON!
All the grades - Preschool through 12th seem to have challenges.
Then, the three girls living in the apartment stumble upon a piece of gold:
Wreck This Journal - a gift from the Dalans.
Some soy sauce, crushed up cereal, forks and pencils thrown at it, and a bit of honey seem to make life a little bit freer.
Sometimes life can be messy... I'm learning to think that's an okay thing.
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