All smiled out

I think I have gotten about 6 hours of sleep over the past few days. I'm beginning to look like a raccoon! I've been going crazy over this 3 week unit on the community, of course I decided to take the non-traditional route but I wanted to do it my way. But the presentation went extremely well so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get a good grade on it. I got a lot of support from the other students, they all loved it and told me that I set the bar, I think I actually started to blush while the were commenting on it. Of course that just made me extremely proud & happy about my hard work. Someone actually asked if they could copy my entire unit to use in her class. Yay, ego boost! All I can say is that I rocked the performances of understanding.

Actually, these past few days I've gotten comments that have put me in an extremely great mood. I got back the feedback from my insect online-track and the professor LOVED it and he said that my students would definitely enjoy it and asked if I used it in my classroom yet. So of course I was all happy that he thought my work was of an actual teacher. Oh, this afternoon I was at Staples making copies of the unit when an old man saw what I was doing. He took one look at the concept map and was like, "Dear God, what is that? It looks like a lot of work!" I was like oh it's just for my unit. He then says, "You snuck out of school to make copies? (looks me up & down) You're quite trendy for a teacher!" So of course I had to explain to him that I was still in school and didn't play hooky from the classroom. I dunno, I'm a weirdo, it just makes me all happy when people think I'm already teaching my own classroom.

Weird mistaken identity in class though. Elmer (he's like in his 50s), out of nowhere asks me how the husband and 2 kids were? I was like, "whhhhattt?!" I was like I'm not married nor do I have kids. He asks me if I'm sure so I tell him that I actually have 5 children. Please, if I had 2 children and still retained my body, that'd be freaking awesome. I think he just got me mixed up with some other Asian girl. Maybe I should have pretended that all of it was true, then I could go from the social leper to the girl with 5 children!