An excellent day

Today was the best day ever. I saw my two worst classes with the TWO worst kids I've mentioned before, anger management Marsha and the boy who has walked out of my advisory two out of three classes. They were both good if not excellent. I also had another girl who has been very hostile and disinterested the whole time and today she raised her hand for almost every question. She speaks Spanish with her family, so maybe now that we are getting into the Spanish she'll be excited to show off. Who the hell knows. Anger management Marsha was exceptionally attentive and even participated. I moved the boy who she hit last week to a different desk, and the girls she always chats with was absent. I was so impressed with her behavior. When I raised my hand and started timing, which is what I do when I want their attention, she even told other kids to shut up and pay attention to me. It was such a wonderful outlet for her rage! I told her as she left that she did a really awesome job.

Also, my principal came into my room while I was teaching and said she needed to talk to me on my next prep period. I was for sure convinced I would be fired, for what I didn't know, but I'm a worrier. She brought up the consequence papers, which she hates, and I just said flat out "I got rid of them." After that she seemed to really turn around. She seemed much happier and nicer. She still didn't tell me anything that would be a good idea, instead telling me that she didn't like my hagan ahora(aka do now, standard NYC public school warm-up activity.) Wait, that's not true, she did give me a suggestion to change my hagan ahora. So all in all not bad, especially since I didn't get fired like I thought. I still didn't get to do my laundry, so that's depressing. But my birthday is on Saturday, so I am psyched none the less!