Am I mean?

Fun interaction from class...

The situation: High school freshman Biology class. I have a good rapport with this student and the class as a whole. When the student and their friends first entered the room they were discussing grammatical errors in a note from the student's significant other. During the lesson the following conversation occurred...

student: Where do they come up with these words?
me: It's Latin.
student: Why is it all in Latin?
me: At one time, anyone who was well-educated in Europe or the U.S. learned Latin so that there was a common language for communication.
student: Why don't we learn Latin no more?
me: Apparently we don't even learn English.

Too harsh? :) We all had a good laugh.

Haven't been on here in a while...

Track started a couple weeks ago and we have our first meet on Saturday. It is a relay meet and is intended to be a fun way to start off the season. I'm having trouble deciding who's doing what because of sickness/out of town/soccer games.

Sensei Heeg is recovering from the surgery on his foot, so I'm starting up my lessons with him again on Friday. So far pregnant TKD hasn't been too bad. I tried going to a sparing class during sparing week, which is kind of boring when you can't spar. So now I'm only doing black belt classes during sparing weeks. Tonight, for example we just did boxing drills...only one drill involved kicks and I just went no contact.

We have a new computer. In honour of its arrival, I started to clean and organize the computer room. I got a about half way and now I just have organized piles spread out on the floor. I should probably take care of that this weekend.