The Adventures of Kinky Reggae: A Vagabond for Beauty

"I'm down to my last dollar, I've walked right through my shoes Just a small reminder of the hell that I've gone through But look at me still smiling as I'm wondering what I'll do Since I ain't got nothing I got nothing to lose..." Here's a summary of my day: This morning in the hall before school, a girl from another class grabbed one of my male student's nipples and twisted hard. He was (understandably), quite upset. The other kids felt it was necessary to inform me that that's called a purple nurple. Then someone asked me if you can get AIDS from kissing, and if not, how can you get it? A few hours later, we were choosing people to write biographies on. (My students don't know who Helen Keller is. This scares me.) J randomly calls out, "Miss B, what is a See You Next Tuesday?" (I don't want to say the word here because it is very dirty and I never say it, but if you watch Sex and the City, you know what I am talk

-Go whitewater rafting -Be Anne of Green Gables-like -Play tennis -Take a class at the Discovery Center -Go see The Color Purple -Learn how to make tamales from Gloria -Make friends in my neighborhood

So I haven't blogged in a while because I was on vacation, then my internet was down. Tonight it is mysteriously working, even though no one has been here to fix it yet. This weekend was so fun! Saturday night, Nina and I went out to my neighborhood bar, Skylark. Drinks were super cheap and good. I liked the atmosphere too- lots of normal people, very non-pretentious. But then we started talking about how we've been wanting to go to Dave and Buster's. It seems like a great concept- everything you loved about Showbiz Pizza, but with alcohol. Well, it sucked. $5 just to get in, and the games and drinks were expensive. And there was a long line to play skee ball, which was like, the only thing I really wanted to do. There weren't a lot of people there, either. Definitely not as exciting as we hoped, but now we know. And I did learn that I can do shots of whiskey with no problem. I wanted to see if I could, because in country songs they always talk about drinki