Oh right, school!

I am a teacher, right? Here's an update:

2nd graders - totally adorable, but still working on the whole "school" concept. And the idea that not everyone in the world speaks Bulgarian is kind of new to them as well.

3rd graders - pretty rambunctious, but I have some real gems in this class.

4th graders - I love these kids! I have several students in this class I hope end up going to a language school (magnet school for accelerated language study). They're very good kids and just adorable.

5th graders - will be the death of me. They're good kids but, well, let's just say that we've had two tests so far and one student has passed one of them. I've instituted extra study on the one day of the week they don't have regular class.

6th graders - good kids, last time they had a test, two students got 49/50. Which is great after grading a whole set of failing tests from my 5th graders. (Maybe I'm not the world's worst teacher after all!)

7th graders - terribly rambunctious, but smart and enthusiastic. I've acquired for them penpals (students studying English with a PCV in Romania) and they're really into it. Last time we wrote letters, several of them included their Skype names. I am really hoping they actually end up chatting with their penpals, that would be such great practice!

8th graders - oy. They think they're too cool for school, I'll just say that much.

That's what's going on.