Here it goes again...

So...it's been more than a month since I've been on here? That seems unreal. Time keeps passing in weird increments. Like each day feels jam packed and painstakingly slow, but one day I wake up and it's the weekend already. And thus the end of student teaching, graduation, and my wedding are that much closer. It's weird. Everything for student teaching is due in a month, graduation is like 2 weeks after that, and I'm getting married in 3 months. Goodness.
Well, since I've been neglectful let me record some of my favorite memories so far:
1) Solo week- This was a great  experience. I taught "A Modest Proposal" and created an essay prompt centered around Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Of course, then I had to read 145 5-paragraph essays...but it was more or less worth it. My observations for this went really well, which was cause for celebration.
2) Quotes from my students-
Anything to do with the first day of reading "A Modest Proposal." Watching their faces at they slowly figured out that Jonathan Swift was telling the Irish to eat babies was priceless.
As we're discussing the Holocaust and specifically some experiments that went on at Auschwitz we talked briefly about castration. Student response to finding out what castration was: "Wait...You can live like that?!"
We watched an episode of Oprah where she and Elie Wiesel were touring Auschwitz. As we're reading Night the next day one of my students stops me before I can start and says "Ms. Coburn, I really wish we hadn't watched that video." "Why is that?" "Because it ruined the book for me. I really wanted to know if Elie survived the concentration camp." Brief pause as I stand there in disbelief "He wrote the book we're reading..."
3) My experience at the bank this past weekend where the teller automatically assumed that Dave was my 14 year old son... You can laught, it's ok I do.
4) Finding and finally settling on a wedding venue and a cake person. It totally takes a load off my mind. Plus I got to spend a whole afternoon eating cake and really, what could be better than that?