me and 13 other teachers took 100 new freshmen on a "first summer" experience to a college campus in westchester, from 6:30 am on Monday until 6pm last night. sooooo exhausted. we woke up every day at 6:30 and were up until around 2-2:30 packing kids back into their dorm rooms. some kids were up til 5 so we had to keep getting up and being like GO TO SLEEP!
it went well overall, but there were several incidents:
1) one kid's clothes and shoes were taken from his locker at the pool and he had no clothes or shoes for a day until we threatened/scared everyone and they mysteriously reappeared
2) 3:00 am obscene phone calls to RAs around the campus using the campus phones
3) fistfight on the bus on the way home
4) skits one night, every one of which featured violence or racial slurs (always Chinese kids doing Chinese shopkeepers with exaggerated accents playing for laughs). after the first four skits that all ended with gunshots or beatings, my kids wanted to add a carjacking to their skit at the last minute and i said NO. one more violent skit and they wanted to add a robbery (which became "a gay robber" as they discussed). still NO.
5) one fat african-american pimp kid who looked very much like Biggie and brought eight different color-coordinated outfits for the three days who was VERY CLEARLY on the d-l and sprayed AXE body spray everywhere stinking up the dorms for three days.
more too. can't wait for school to begin.
it went well overall, but there were several incidents:
1) one kid's clothes and shoes were taken from his locker at the pool and he had no clothes or shoes for a day until we threatened/scared everyone and they mysteriously reappeared
2) 3:00 am obscene phone calls to RAs around the campus using the campus phones
3) fistfight on the bus on the way home
4) skits one night, every one of which featured violence or racial slurs (always Chinese kids doing Chinese shopkeepers with exaggerated accents playing for laughs). after the first four skits that all ended with gunshots or beatings, my kids wanted to add a carjacking to their skit at the last minute and i said NO. one more violent skit and they wanted to add a robbery (which became "a gay robber" as they discussed). still NO.
5) one fat african-american pimp kid who looked very much like Biggie and brought eight different color-coordinated outfits for the three days who was VERY CLEARLY on the d-l and sprayed AXE body spray everywhere stinking up the dorms for three days.
more too. can't wait for school to begin.
