flying by.....

So again I haven’t updated in awhile. Second semester has been insane so far and flown by in ways that I never thought would be possible. There are not words that could possibly describe how much different this first semester has gone as compared to the first. I started off with about 100 students, and I am now down to around 65. It’s really sad because many of them have ended up in the alternative school, expelled, or dropped out. However, it sure has made my life a lot easier. My class sizes are all down to around 15 or so, and are therefore much more manageable. Last week was actually the first week since the beginning of the semester that we were in school for five days. We’ve had teacher in-service, holidays, or snow days every single week since January, and now we’re a week into the three week sprint until spring break. Only two weeks until spring break, and only six weeks until our End of Course test. I stopped being an overachiever/ living in a fantasy world meaning I’ve decided to run the half marathon and not the full. I feel like that was a good decision, I just didn’t have the 4 hours to train every weekend…. Maybe next year.

So people from a previous life will be extremely disappointed in this next section of the blog…. I’ve had a nice “raggedy” (as the children say) phone for the past two years and unfortunately the other day it decided to die on me. Since I have faithfully stuck by ole raggedy for so long I was eligible for an upgrade and yes… it happened… I got an iPhone. Hahaha…. I got it on Tuesday and did almost nothing but play with it for four hours on Tuesday night. So yes… feel free to judge me. I deserve it. As a side note, I may no longer have your number so feel free to send it to me. I won’t be annoying at this point and set up one of those ridiculous Facebook groups to ask for everybody’s number.

Anyway, life is going well. I found out last week that I may be the FUMC youth leader in Savannah this summer. I am pretty excited about that, and sadly I am already thinking about how nice summer will be. Ok… so I need to be sure to include at least one funny tidbit. Earlier in the week I had a student ask me, “Mr. Rogers, why white people be so hairy?” Wasn’t really sure how to respond to that one... Oh also we got these fancy new SmartBoards in our room the other day. They have speakers on the boards so I can now jam out during my planning period. So during one such planning period I had one of my only three white children in my class and we were jamming out to some country music. I had another student walk in and take in the scene…. Two white people at Central High School listening to country music… The student was not impressed…. “White people…” Is all she could muster up. Hahaha… Anyway, hope everyone is doing well. Update me on your lives. Peace.