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Don’t come a-knockin’ if the minivan’s a-rockin’.
By beth | November 14, 2007
As I was on my way to class this evening, I got behind a minivan with some pretty amazing hydraulic action going on. It was quite amusing. I mean, this just doesn’t seem to fit, does it? A bumpin’ minivan? Seriously? It’s just not the kind of ride that one would normally think to pimp in such a manner. But there it was, nonetheless, bumpin’ its way down New Bern Avenue. And there I was on my way to my last GED class. Ever.
I feel like I’ve been in some weirdo alternate universe for the last three months. I’m not a GED teacher. Why have I been teaching GED? Who was that person who was doing that? That was me?? No. It couldn’t have been. Surely it was just a long, stressful dream, and I’m about to wake up from it to find that I’m just an ESL teacher. Grammar, pronunciation, spelling, conversation - that’s it. That’s all I do. No fractions, no decimals, no percents, for heaven’s sake no ALGEBRA, no Social Studies, no Science, no drama, no students looking at me like I’ve just sprouted another leg out of the side of my neck when I suggest to them that they might switch papers with their classmate and edit (gasp!! “Cooperative learning, did you say?”). No more feeling completely like a fish out of water, floundering around, trying to flop myself back into the river. Back into normality, where I can breathe again and be myself.
When I wake up tomorrow morning, that is exactly what I’ll be waking up to. Normalcy. I’m so excited about waking up that I’m going to hurry up and go to bed now. Sweet dreams, y’all!
Topics: GED, not normal, sleep/dreams, ESL |