My New Lunch Table

Even lunch time is work time at our school. While other teachers sit in a teachers lounge and eat their brown paper bag lunches, we sit with our students and eat somewhat-strange Asian cafeteria food. Some days it can be draining to not have a break from the students, but it's days like today that make it totally worth it!

For the first few weeks of school, students are placed randomly with teachers. My lunch table for the first few weeks was ok; almost all of the kids had great English so conversations were easy and they liked to talk to me. But it was always sort of a chore to make conversation and get along with all of them (we had some interesting personality combinations at that table).

Lucky for me though, today the new lunch table assignments took affect. Last Friday the students chose their advisors for the year, a teacher they like and trust to sort of watch out for them. I ended up with 5 completely awesome students! I don't teach any of them this year, which is actually nice because I don't have to be their teacher and their advisor/friend, but I taught all of them last year. It is the best group of kids I could ask for!

I have two returning advisees, ReRe and ViVi, who were awesome last year and taught me a ton of Chinese. I also have Gwendeline who is quiet but super nice and two boys: Henry and Bill. Henry and Bill are these awesome 11th graders who always made me smile last year when I taught then first hour every day. Now I get to see them all for lunch each day! I am so excited, lunch is going to be great this year!