XXL Underwear and Freezing Weather- January in NOLA
Hi Loyal Readers,
It's Mardi Gras time! The first parades rolled last week, and my roommate Jake is in Shangri-La today. That's the first time a friend has been in a parade so I am pretty much guaranteed all the best "throws" (beads, stuffed animals, cups, XXL underwear, and the like). Mardi Gras is much different uptown vs. bourbon street. If someone shows their chest in my neighborhood, most people stare at them like "why are they doing that... they must be a tourist" but on Bourbon raunchy is the status quo.
I love Mardi Gras. This is the scene: families lining the streets, bundled up because it is usually FREEZING, little kids on ladders to ensure the best throws, open drinking on the street by 17, 47 and 87 year olds, making random friends, screaming at floats. You never wanted plastic crap as bad as you do when a Mardi Gras float rolls by. It is really hard to do work, eat regularly or basically do anything else when Mardi Gras season is on. And finding a place to use the bathroom is difficult but essential.
In the second week of January, we accelerated half of our 5th graders to 6th grade. I have 11 students now- 5 are new. 7 boys and 4 girls is a challenge, but we have a pretty good culture going. We are working our butts off until the week of March 10!! School has been a challenge lately- for a while, my printer wasn't working, a large portion of my room was flooded from the ceiling and ruined lots of my books, and then this week I got a second degree burn on my thumb from the overhead. Seriously. God bless Worker's Comp- it's already almost totally healed. Beware the classroom equipment! School is generally good, except the occasional bitchy 7th grade girl or bureaucratic annoyance. Planning for the day is much less enjoyable to me than actually being with the kids. I'm on a year-to-year lease with teaching and I've renewed for next year.
The next few months will be awesome- Mardi Gras break, spring break, Jazzfest.... the spring in New Orleans is hard to beat! Come visit anytime!
Love,
Sarah
It's Mardi Gras time! The first parades rolled last week, and my roommate Jake is in Shangri-La today. That's the first time a friend has been in a parade so I am pretty much guaranteed all the best "throws" (beads, stuffed animals, cups, XXL underwear, and the like). Mardi Gras is much different uptown vs. bourbon street. If someone shows their chest in my neighborhood, most people stare at them like "why are they doing that... they must be a tourist" but on Bourbon raunchy is the status quo.
I love Mardi Gras. This is the scene: families lining the streets, bundled up because it is usually FREEZING, little kids on ladders to ensure the best throws, open drinking on the street by 17, 47 and 87 year olds, making random friends, screaming at floats. You never wanted plastic crap as bad as you do when a Mardi Gras float rolls by. It is really hard to do work, eat regularly or basically do anything else when Mardi Gras season is on. And finding a place to use the bathroom is difficult but essential.
In the second week of January, we accelerated half of our 5th graders to 6th grade. I have 11 students now- 5 are new. 7 boys and 4 girls is a challenge, but we have a pretty good culture going. We are working our butts off until the week of March 10!! School has been a challenge lately- for a while, my printer wasn't working, a large portion of my room was flooded from the ceiling and ruined lots of my books, and then this week I got a second degree burn on my thumb from the overhead. Seriously. God bless Worker's Comp- it's already almost totally healed. Beware the classroom equipment! School is generally good, except the occasional bitchy 7th grade girl or bureaucratic annoyance. Planning for the day is much less enjoyable to me than actually being with the kids. I'm on a year-to-year lease with teaching and I've renewed for next year.
The next few months will be awesome- Mardi Gras break, spring break, Jazzfest.... the spring in New Orleans is hard to beat! Come visit anytime!
Love,
Sarah
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