Cute

Here are some pictures of the cute kids I have been teaching for the past four weeks.

This is almost all of the students in the entire school.  They are lining up for lunch, which gets served through the window blue window that is closed in this picture.

My class.

While we were working on math today some of the girls wrote me a message on their white boards.

Then some of the other students decided they wanted to do it too.  I couldn't resist taking pictures.  I'm only here for 2 more days, and it was just too cute to pass up the opportunity.

Tony and I were working on flash cards together.

And then some more students decided they wanted to write me messages.  You can't see Darren's very well, but his says, "I love you Mary.  I like your hair."  He cracks me up, which leads me to another story.....

On the very first day that I was in the classroom teaching, Darren complimented me on something.  I think that he told me he liked my jacket and that I looked pretty.  It was so sweet and so cute.  I told him thank you and said how nice that was.  Every day since then he has found something to give me a compliment about.  He's complimented my hair, my shoes, my shirt....even when he can't really think of anything to compliment me on, he'll say he likes my pants. (That's why the message he wrote me today in the picture was so funny.  He even asked me how to spell hair so that he could write it.)  But never fail, I can count on Darren for a compliment...it is the best confidence booster ever.  It makes me feel so good every day, and I look forward to what Darren will compliment me on when I come to school.  Some of the other students caught on to the fact that Darren was doing this and that it was something I liked, so they started doing it too.  They usually don't remember to compliment me until Darren does, but I can't complain.  Now I have several students who pay me compliments and say nice things about what I am wearing or how I look every day.  I am definitely going to miss that.