Did you? (where applicable)
After doing my civic duty I went to work out at the gym, so I rocked the vote, and rocked the scales. I rock.
Dan and I made delicious, delicious salmon tonight for dinner. Sometimes we rock at making dinner. Dan likes to say words like "brick" when he burps, and I decided that if I can't beat em', join em', so I was trying to burp and say a word. Dan tried to teach me through linguistics saying things like "you need to start a little lower with a good bi-labial, and end with a stop." I thought this was absurd, but correct.
Know what else rocks? My students. They all were very interested in talking about politics today, so when I was watching CNN tonight, it didn't suprise me that most Latinos support Hilary Clinton. I could have projected that myself based on my conversations. I think one reason might be that immigration is a serious issue with my students. Seriously. Their families, mother's, father's, even possibly themeselves are wrapped up in this touchy subject. It's real, and they are kids, people all here to make a better life for themeselves. There is no denying that. I wish that I had prepared more information for them, instead of teaching the timeline of the Spanish American war, doesn't it make more sense to prepare them to explain the timeline of today? They show interest, therefore I feel as if I need to play into them. It affects them as citizens of their school, their community, their state, and their country. Since I support my students as citizens, I feel as if I should support them in their desire to learn about their world.
I had an interesteing conversation with both my 7th and 8th graders this afternoon. My 7th graders wanted to know more about how the Townshend Act influenced the taxes of today. It was really interesting, and it was hard to put them back on track to their school work, but I liked the questions they were asking, and I'm glad that I felt knowledgable enough about politics, and unbiased enough to discuss it. They asked about term limits, brought up immigration issues, as well as they were all very interested in the way I'd vote.
My 8th graders later were reading a play about Women's Sufferage, and we had a pretty great conversation about women now having a choice. There were two girls in the class, which I was really interested in getting their viewpoint. One girl said that she didn't care to have the vote if it meant being forced to work, or go to war (issues brought up during that time (in the play)). The other girl, and actually the boys stepped in the most to defend equal rights. It's a releif to see that these kids heads are in the right place when it comes to understanding justice and fairness in today's society. We talked a lot about how women now have a CHOICE about working, or going to war, and I think it made all the students think. I DO feel proud that I have the right to go vote, for a woman, or a black man if I choose. I don't have to, but I did have the choice, and thank God for that. We've come a long way.
The picture of the day is not political, but actually a follow up to a January post entitled Christmas Tree Graveyard. Today I noticed with my eyes and nose that the parks, and medians have been mulched with christmas trees! Yay for Mulch Fest 08!! It seems it was a success!
I'm choosing sleep now.
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