Place of sadness

Yesterday was the first day back for the students after Christmas break.

First period, my ESL students came to my classroom for advisory & we were reviewing their new schedules for this semester.

AL (Brazilian kid - ie, drama king) was looking over his schedule & he couldn't stop talking about how miserable he was going to be this semester because he didn't want to have these classes. I, of course, was laughing because I can never take him seriously.

Near the end of advisory, I asked all the students as a class, "Ok, so is everyone comfortable & they know where they are going today?"

AL dropped his head & replied rather dismally, "To a place of sadness."

:)