Teaching teenagers is like herding cats. A lot of the time, it seems impossible, but there is always something happening that makes it worthwhile. Lucky for me, I get a lot of those worthwhile moments. And a lot of these have resulted in great quotes from my students.
Sean is always a font of wonderful insanity. One of his best came one day when he was trying a new kind of tea I had brought in. He had a sip, looked at me and said "Tara, this tea smells like a rich hot chocolate and tastes like beautiful." A while later, during a game of Periodic Table Hangman, Sean and Rachel were sitting on chairs, side by side. Well, Rachel was sitting; Sean was sprawling, and his legs were taking up a lot of room. All of a sudden, all I heard was "You're tickling my toe with your butt!" A few weeks after that, Sean was working on a Math question in my room. He had the problem written up on the board, turned to me and said "I should make the angles sin30 and cos30 and really screw over the equation."
While Sean's comments are always funny, Teddie has had some of the best ones, completely inadvertently. For example:
About The Ring:
"Is that the one where the TV takes a leak?"
When she was instructing another student:
"Look at be being all smart and like!"
On how she learns:
"I learn like I paint a fence: Its kind of random and sporadic, but it all gets done eventually!"
Life Lesson: Even though something may be challenging, there is always something that makes it worthwhile.
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