More strange and disturbing news from students:
An 8th grade girl: “Teacher! You look like a baby ostrich!”
I looked at her, unable to muster any kind of response.
She waited three beats. Four beats. “Very cute,” she clarified, in the same tone of amazement.
Was this a quick recovery, or a pre-planned joke? No matter. I will take compliments… such as they are.
Here is a picture I drew while a student in a lower level class was preparing a test (she’d failed to bring her pre-prepared speech from home, so I gave her time to rewrite it and practice it a bit before her speech test). It came out pretty well. Some characters my students will know, combined with a sort of happy-go-lucky feel.
There’s no baby ostriches in it, though.
