Hey Miss Landers-What’s My Name?
03 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in Hey Miss Landers!, Thoughts Tags: Double life, Middle School, Miss Landers, Spanish
So….I teach Spanish in Middle School, as I’ve mentioned before. And part of helping the students move seamlessly in the language is to have them pick a name in Spanish. I have a deck of cards with names for the boys and a separate deck for the girls. I have to do this because after twenty-one years of teaching I grew tired of students wanting to be: Jesús, Margarita, or Nacho Libre. Heavy sigh. Giggle. Rolling the eyes. Imagine the reactions to me having to say, “Jesus, you didn’t do your homework again?!” I taught in a Catholic school so you get the idea. 
Anyhoo….I was in the midst of explaining the importance of picking a proper name to my group of seventh graders when suddenly one boy looks at me with a serious look and says, “You mean it’s like having a DOUBLE life!”
Ha! Ha! Ha! Uh…Yes…well….something like that.
I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. I love what I do for a living. I can’t believe I get paid to have so many giggles in a day.
