I Don’t Write 2′s Like That

December 7, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The end of the trimester is upon us!! What does that mean??

For the school year, it is broken into three bits. The first bit was October until the end December. But because I have an event for the anniversary of Burkina Faso (50 years of independence) and a little mini training at the capital, I had to finish everything for the end of the trimester.

Besides just grading (by hand) and calculating grades (by hand), I had to read off the grades for every devoir, quiz, and the average for every student. I really perfected my numbers in French. The kids are sneaky though. I had a few kids that crossed out a number and said I changed their grade when I obviously didn’t but one girl went above and beyond that.

One girl was in my 4eme PC class. She came up with a test that was definitley not my handwriting. The inside page I had graded but the cover was totally different. Instead of just sitting back down, she started crying and pleading with me trying to convince me that I wrote it. Nope but if you keep making a big deal I will change your grade but it will be a zero. So when she burst out I hanged her grade. That sucked.

Now I am for anniversary celebrtion and have the opportunity to march in the parade. I will be uncharacteristically attached to the Internet during all of this.

In short life is great here and, yes, I actually do like it.