Please, I didn't write that! My handwriting isn't that nice. I have sweet students :)
Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! So I'm a day late and a dollar short. I meant to post this last night, but on occasion Blogger likes to appear in Arabic and I can't figure out where I need to log in. Thank-you brain cells for showing up today and reminding me of Google Translate! It only took half an hour of copying and pasting Arabic into the translate box so I could figure out what it said in English!
Let me tell you friends, teaching can be the most frustrating/awesome/rewarding/rip-your-hair-out-of-your-skull/fan-freaking-tabulous job ever. Yesterday, my day was beyond great, and I have my students to thank for it.
My morning started out with a student bringing me a rose. Awww!
And then a friends 'friend' brought me one as well. Now that was just sweet!
After that I had a student walk up to me with chocolate deliciousness on a stick. She dipped a big marshmallow in homemade chocolate and brought me one. Nummy!
I had another student bring me a homemade cookie. The girl can bake!
This is a compilation from a variety of students. The little man on the board is a human that Polyphemus ate the day before. (He's the Cyclops in the Odyssey - I had them do a tableaux of significant lines from the Cyclops section in the textbook - now THAT was entertainment).
And the last student brought me another rose. Correction: she gave me the rose she had received from a friend of hers because she already had two. I tried to make her take her flower, but she insisted so I said okay. Yes, she knows she's not getting an automatic 'A' for a rose. Come on people! My students know me better than that! Although, it doesn't mean they don't still try :)
My flowers in the hand-blown vase I bought on the FAIL island trip. The card is from the parentals - my mom included it in the package she sent me before Christmas - and that I received late last week. I had multiple students ask me to be their Valentine. They were horrified when I said I didn't have one. My favorite was the kid that told me he'd bring me invisible flowers if I'd be his Valentine <3 Too funny!
Oh - the reason for the title of the post: in the elementary school it's friendship day, not Valentine's day. Dating in Arabic culture is very different from American culture. Some students are allowed to date, others are not, it just depends on their families (I've asked). For the most part, the boys and girls lead very separate lives. They don't tend to have groups of friends that include both males and females. I understand that's a part of their culture, but I'm glad I grew up where I did and was able to have male and female friends!
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