LIVE... THE ITINERARY OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER
𐑞 ◟ ͜ DOWN RIGHT HERE IN ABBOTT ELEMENTARY ✍︎
I wake up first the moment the alarm rings. "Wake up, asshole" I wake up Ben by softly hitting him. "Oh, there's cameras" he noticed, rubbing his eyes and pointing at the cameras. "They stalked us" she remarked, he softly chuckles.
He makes breakfast while singing Broadway songs incorrectly on purpose. While, I grade essays as I wait for him to finish making breakfast so we'll eat together. After eating breakfast, we both get prepared and get our materials for each other's classes.
He unfortunately drives... Cause i'm terrible.
❝ Your chauffeur has arrived. ❞
❝ Well, I don't like him already. ❞
The car ride. It's the worseee (if you get it you get it). Our mainly talked topics is... Weird student stories, district emails, which sitcom has the best cold open, and making fake biographies for strangers in traffic & narrating them. Thank god, traffic isn't bad... I don't wanna hear a bad David Attenborough impression.
We arrive in Abbott and everyone notices we carpooled together... I have a giant tote bag, coffee, books, laptop, and a stack of essays while he has tea, random prop sword, fake mustache, six pool noodles for improv club. The students immediately yell "Mrs. Cruz!" "Mr. Schwartz!"
I write in the board already filled out about the lesson on types of writing. Our agenda is bellwork, reading, discussion, and writing. And of course, I teach the students.
❝ Did you steal my Expo markers? ❞
❝ They wanted a better life on the stage. ❞
We usually sit together with Gregory, Janine, and Jacob. And eat our lunch which was either take-out or made at our home.
❝ One of my students used a semicolon correctly. ❞
❝ One of mine convincingly played a dying Victorian orphan. ❞
❝ Mine will pay taxes. ❞
❝ Mine will win Tonys. ❞
English Club (after school)...
I let them do creative writing and poetry. I also let them do reading in the library.
The two of us are about to leave the school while he waits outside in utmost exhaustion, and I continue checking papers. He texts me...
Until I come out with seventeen books, trying to put in a tote bag.
❝ These essays are why caffeine exists. ❞
And he does as we got to the car.
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