Kids are Neat

And as I enter my final week in the field experience at Princeton High School, I think, damn these kids are cool...

My favorite class has to be the Juniors and Seniors speech class. It's an elective and we all know what type of kids would elect to take a speech course. There is the prim and proper Jesus lover who also competes on the speech team. She even uses the speech voice. All sedate and help-lineish. It's a cross between June Cleaver and an Airline Stewardess. There are the other preppy girls who think it will look good on their transcripts. There is the mixed gender social activist group that sits in the back and wants to protest everything. The two class clowns who figured this class would be easy--and it is. And the three sociable, but lacking real social skills, girls who don't quite fit anywhere. And then my personal favorite who has become a bit of a pet, the artsy girl who has problems and slacks a lot. She's the coolest!

All of them really bright. That class is so much fun. I can't wait to see what they come up with for their speeches.

For example. One of the social reformists gave her persuasive speech on why Peanuts is the dumbest cartoon strip ever...OH MY GOD! IT SO IS!! Another gave his speech on why George Bush sucks, and yet another gaver her speech on why Capitalism is bad. I wanted to hug each and everyone of these little social reformers. God bless our future hippies.

The Jesus girl gave her speech on why Religion is good. Yawn.

My little artsy friend, never gives her speeches. Haha! But when she does she is very cool and collected. They are giving demonstration speeches now, her topic she wants to persue is "How to make a baby monkey" She wanted to do "How to Make Babies" but thought human sexuality too taboo, so she switched it to monkeys because as she said in her own words, "Ain't nothing wrong with monkey love"...She is a child after my own primate driven urges.

Plus I get to hear commentary from the class clown, who always manages to spot the flaws in the preppy girls speechs and exploit the hell out of them, but in a very comical way.

Ahh yeah--sometimes my job is cool as hell.