Oh, children.

That's what I say when they're being naughty. "Oh, children." Because they're acting like children.

Yesterday I had two students acting out a skit while I read it. I promise the skit was perfectly innocuous. They don't KNOW enough Spanish for anything else. But the male actor decided to make an inappropriate gesture. The entire class erupted in someone-just-did-something-related-to-sex laughter. To be honest, I was putting my camera down and missed it altogether. I pretended. I asked the actors to sit down and walked to the front. Sadly and seriously I said, "Class?" They responded (as I'm trying to train them), "Si." I said, "Raise your right hand. Now, repeat after me: I solomnly swear.... I will always.... be appropriate.... in Spanish class.... because I like my teacher.... and I do not want.... her to die of shame... because she is very impressionable."

It seemed to work for now. I got a panicked and heartfelt apology after class.

Then, to make the Thursday complete, we had open house. So I was at work for 13 hours, the final 3 fielding questions like, "This is your first year teaching, isn't it sweetie?"