Dance teacher, dance!

Saturday night was the Central Students Committee Winter Cotillion and it was great. I honestly wasn't expecting that many of our students (little Verdun can't compete with the hordes of the West Island, I thought to myself), but was pleasantly surprised when about 20 of Beurling Academy students showed up, all dressed up and spiffied out. It's was pretty and shiny, and I'm not just talking about the decorations...

I danced, not much, but I did dance and probably freaked out most of my students. I was shocked at the musical selection and floored when I witnessed the entire banquet hall screech in delight when the first notes of YMCA began playing ( I didn't dance to that one, some things will never, ever change). House of Pain's Jump Around is still quite popular too, go figure. I am not that much out of the loop playlist wise if they are still playing songs from the early 90's at student dances.

The highlight of the night though was when 2 girls from another highschool thought I was a student. Sweet...

Standard Panic Mode

I always tend to get a bad case of SPM at this time. I can keep me up at night (as it did last night). Will the event, Spirit Week in this case, be a success or not, will everything come crashing down and will I end up committing seppuku or some other nasty ritualistic sacrifice of my own person...

*sigh*

I can only wait and hope that students sign up en masse. Maybe I should have lowered the cost of the activities, but my students are convinced that 10$ is not too much, even for an inner city school, and that for most, 10$ is their daily pocket change. My principal believes that maybe 10$ is too much, but I guess we will learn from any mistake that occurs this week.

If the field trips get cancelled, so be it. But at least we had a fun journey and we will have a great week with surprise activities.More pics to come...

My job is done

I know I have a done a good job (aka nagged my students sufficiently) when I hear from other students giving props to students I left in charge. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside (or it could be just bad gas...)

Sign-ups for Spirit Week began today and I left Little Dave (little because his dad is David senior and is known as Big Dave...anyhoo), seconded by Holly "Miss Extreme" . Poor Miss Liz la Prez was ill so I was a bit nervous about leaving Dave in charge. Even he was worried about leaving himself in charge. Well that didn't bode well...

But Holly tells me Dave was great and for Holly to acknowledge someone else's accomplishments (let's just say she can be tempermental sometimes), it makes me proud for the both of them.

Teacher gets an A =)

What will happen in the next two weeks...

...will either be organized excitement or sheer madness (compounded by a mixture of chaos and bitter disppointment). Spirit Week always makes me feel like a wedding-planner handling a diva-bride with a family from hell: they will want extra time for pictures and speeches and will end up pissing off the chef.

I'm crossing my fingers and toes that things go smoothly over hte next week so that Spirit Week, which starts on the 27th, leads off with a bang!

Yoohoo Miss A, where are you?

I have been busy and haven't had the chance to post lately... will do as soon as I can