Whew…it’s been quite a week. I’ve been going to hankido a lot lately, only missed Monday’s workout, and I went to Dr. Minh’s Tuesday class and I helped out Steve Brown with the self-defense seminar for the tkd folks. Actually got my considering going to tkd every once in a while. It’d be nice for me to get some extra kicks in. that way I can just work on everything else when I’m in hankido. I’m not sure if I want to test..i don’t feel that prepared, but at the same time I don’t wanna see all my fellow brown belts leave me behind! Of course, I have so much work to do with groundwork and my wrist techniques. My throws are finally coming along now that I’m working on them.

Things at work are still crazy. I guess it’s just that I’m getting used to it. I still don’t know what I’m doing next year. So many ups and downs..one of my kids who I swear has ADHD and is always disrupting my 5th period class. He just transferred in from juvy and I thought he was adapting relatively well. He’s always taking or doing something, but he’s got a real quick mind. And he actually remembers some things that I teach. So anyways, I talk with him outside of class and I tell him to try to watch his behavior, but to also keep up the good work. It’s some kids like him that I feel have some real potential. Not like the others don’t, but so many of my other students are so content with not improving themselves. They’re so behind, and yet they don’t want to pick themselves up. But this guy, I dunno…maybe I see some of myself in him. But anyways, he usually comes in really loud and a little bit late, and the other day he came in quietly (but still late) and something just seemed different. He didn’t say a word until after I approached him and talked to him. Found out that he might actually be going back to jail. I didn’t get into the details, but I could see that he was really sad about it. I think he was adjusting fairly well, better than a lot of the other ex-juvies they’ve thrown at me, and it seemed like he really was trying to turn things around.

Everything else at work has been business as usual though. I gave them a test on genetics on Wednesday. I wish I taught the section better, but it was hard cuz I was going into it blind and unprepared. Just like all the other sections though…but at least I like this section. Some of the kids did fairly well on the test too. Then I didn’t feel like going into DNA yet..so I ended up doing this lab on Daphnia..this small bug that lives in pondwater. Those couple of days were relatively painless…’cept for my 6th period ELD class..they ended up squirting each other with the water.

So now it’s the weekend and I get to catch up with my life. Gonna help out with crazy matching day for INSPIRE, then head down to the south bay to see some folks.