First Day of School

Today was my first day teaching. And nobody even took my picture with my lunch box and knee socks. It was an interesting day, to say the least. First of all, I had to teach several classes on the fly. Between Friday, when I received my schedule, and today, the schedule changed a bit. I wasn't even supposed to have a 7am class, so I was pretty surprised when I learned of that change at 6:50am. (Then I found out later that they actually fired someone over the weekend. I suspect that was her class.) A few highlights and lowlights from my first day on the job:

• I completely screwed up while teaching (on the fly) the verb "to do." I don't think I have ever, ever given two seconds of thought as to the difference between using "do" as an auxiliary verb or a main verb. I promised them I would make it all better tomorrow. I still haven't quite figured out how. (Please, please send me any suggestions you have!)
  
• In that same class, I have a student named Hitler. That's his first name. I think I'm going to have to ask him if he has a nickname. It's too distracting, I'm just not capable of referring to someone by the same name as the most evil dictator in history.
  
• Also in the same class, one of my students brought her three year old son. This is going to be my most stressful class, I can tell.
• I'm no artist, and while illustrating vocabulary on the board, I ended up drawing something that looked more like a rather phallic symbol. I immediately erased, thus giving myself away.
  
• My Advanced I class is reading a story about genetics. Seriously?!

I can't believe I have to get up in a few hours and do it all over again.