People looking at this, if you think it's too long-well fuck it then. 
Mods-I haven't seen an area for memories..per se..so move it where ever 
So I have a snow day today..and possibly tomorrow...yes..
Other posts might be about my psych ward experiences (for mania) ...thinking about the nature of Consciousness, of 'God', for want of a better term. I never have any other 'symptoms' than this..Reading Vedic texts and everything I can get my hands on. The problem comes when I stop sleeping b/c all that energy is coming in...the first time for about six days..the others...about 3. Hospitalized 7 times in all. Now I'm pretty much self-managed..I know when to nip it..but wish I didn't have to. If I want to teach, or keep a schedule, I have to. Time becomes irrelevant, because it actually is.
No drugs involved with these btw. I've done my share in my 20's, but none of these events happened anywhere near an acid trip or any other thing..smoking MJ...popping Adderall, etc. I think it's about a misunderstood Spiritual Awakening..but that's a different thread/story. There's quite a lot of people this is happening to out there.
They are good memories and I'm grateful for all of them, at any rate.
I teach as a Reading Specialist... It's a job I'm glad I trained for every day of my life..I work in an ideal environment where I teach dyslexic, add/adhd/ ocd/anxiety disordered/Aspberger's kids (a favorite) etc...They can be, and often are, a combination. It's a private school. This year I teach 1st through 7th.....a range that varies from year to year. The teachers here have a great deal of creative freedom and do not teach to a test. That's what a good education is about.....a little part, at least..but very important for a teacher to have when coming up with great lessons.
So this was a story I wrote to a friend a while back....Thus the conversational nature of this, and thought I'd post it b/c moments like this are good things in life...
It helps to understand this if you've read the 'Giver', btw.
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My 6th grade Reading Comp class is probably the most fun group I've ever taught. They love stories and talking about the meanings and motivations of characters-all of it.
We are reading 'The Giver' now..and their reactions are hilarious...It blows their minds when something happens...like with Jonas having to take the pills....and 'sharing feelings'...laughing at the part where they are bathing the old people and him explaining about 'nakedness'..
Yesterday we got to the part where the reader learns who the Giver really is/what it means/etc...and it was everything you want a kid to experience and 'see' when they read a book....gasps, jaw drops, the 'omg'!!!....and then they have all this flood of questions about hypotheticals and what going to happen next, which is exactly what you want them to be asking, but it's hard to answer those kind for this book w/o giving something big away. Wait until they find out what Release is, I'm thinking.. .
Some have already guessed b/c I have alluded to it (by accident). When they questioned me about it further, I neither confirmed nor denied.. I have had to say ..'You will have to wait and see'..just about everyday.
So needless to say, these are some realllly good kids.They are not jaded or to cool for school...still innocent.
The day after we read the part about the pills (hormone pills they have to take when they start to have sexual feelings) one of the boys says..."I asked my mom yesterday if they (mom/dad) ever did that' and the other kids laughed and said 'Whhaa..did they take pills you mean'?...He said...Noooooo...I mean THAT' and he turned really red...and they all got it..haha
The day before I had to finally tell them what the pills were really about...that it was about sex..)..A funny story in and of itself..haha. I looked at them all and said..'Don't you all know about that yet?' And the one girl in there (out of 5) is looking at me like 'omg'...I told them the normal way kids usually 'find out' is talking about it themselves now..etc..
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Fun shit...I get to teach them this year too. We read an Agatha Christie mystery that involved a 'LOVAHHH' and 'Philannnnderer'...I said them with an accent every time...that killed them...nothing quite like having fun with some interested kids.
Mods-I haven't seen an area for memories..per se..so move it where ever So I have a snow day today..and possibly tomorrow...yes..
Other posts might be about my psych ward experiences (for mania) ...thinking about the nature of Consciousness, of 'God', for want of a better term. I never have any other 'symptoms' than this..Reading Vedic texts and everything I can get my hands on. The problem comes when I stop sleeping b/c all that energy is coming in...the first time for about six days..the others...about 3. Hospitalized 7 times in all. Now I'm pretty much self-managed..I know when to nip it..but wish I didn't have to. If I want to teach, or keep a schedule, I have to. Time becomes irrelevant, because it actually is.
No drugs involved with these btw. I've done my share in my 20's, but none of these events happened anywhere near an acid trip or any other thing..smoking MJ...popping Adderall, etc. I think it's about a misunderstood Spiritual Awakening..but that's a different thread/story. There's quite a lot of people this is happening to out there.
They are good memories and I'm grateful for all of them, at any rate.
I teach as a Reading Specialist... It's a job I'm glad I trained for every day of my life..I work in an ideal environment where I teach dyslexic, add/adhd/ ocd/anxiety disordered/Aspberger's kids (a favorite) etc...They can be, and often are, a combination. It's a private school. This year I teach 1st through 7th.....a range that varies from year to year. The teachers here have a great deal of creative freedom and do not teach to a test. That's what a good education is about.....a little part, at least..but very important for a teacher to have when coming up with great lessons.
So this was a story I wrote to a friend a while back....Thus the conversational nature of this, and thought I'd post it b/c moments like this are good things in life...
It helps to understand this if you've read the 'Giver', btw.
*******************
My 6th grade Reading Comp class is probably the most fun group I've ever taught. They love stories and talking about the meanings and motivations of characters-all of it.
We are reading 'The Giver' now..and their reactions are hilarious...It blows their minds when something happens...like with Jonas having to take the pills....and 'sharing feelings'...laughing at the part where they are bathing the old people and him explaining about 'nakedness'..
Yesterday we got to the part where the reader learns who the Giver really is/what it means/etc...and it was everything you want a kid to experience and 'see' when they read a book....gasps, jaw drops, the 'omg'!!!....and then they have all this flood of questions about hypotheticals and what going to happen next, which is exactly what you want them to be asking, but it's hard to answer those kind for this book w/o giving something big away. Wait until they find out what Release is, I'm thinking.. .
Some have already guessed b/c I have alluded to it (by accident). When they questioned me about it further, I neither confirmed nor denied.. I have had to say ..'You will have to wait and see'..just about everyday.
So needless to say, these are some realllly good kids.They are not jaded or to cool for school...still innocent.
The day after we read the part about the pills (hormone pills they have to take when they start to have sexual feelings) one of the boys says..."I asked my mom yesterday if they (mom/dad) ever did that' and the other kids laughed and said 'Whhaa..did they take pills you mean'?...He said...Noooooo...I mean THAT' and he turned really red...and they all got it..haha
The day before I had to finally tell them what the pills were really about...that it was about sex..)..A funny story in and of itself..haha. I looked at them all and said..'Don't you all know about that yet?' And the one girl in there (out of 5) is looking at me like 'omg'...I told them the normal way kids usually 'find out' is talking about it themselves now..etc..
***
Fun shit...I get to teach them this year too. We read an Agatha Christie mystery that involved a 'LOVAHHH' and 'Philannnnderer'...I said them with an accent every time...that killed them...nothing quite like having fun with some interested kids.
