jenn is.... lost in a sea of french

at the moment i'm TOC-ing full time at north delta secondary teaching french 8 and french 9 all day everyday. in the next few days there is a good possibility that the job will turn into a full-time contract so that i'm no longer only subbing. i must say though, planning for a full day of french is ridiculous - but in a good way. my grasp of the language is probably not quite what it should be, but i am in love with it. i can't even begin to count how many french songs i've listened to or chants i've chanted in the past few hours. my favourite song at the moment is the french version of the seven days of the week set to the flintstones song. clearly it doesn't get better than this:

Lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche
Les sept jours de la semaine
Cinquante-deux fois pendant toute l’année
Cinq jours on apprend à l’école
Mes profs et mes amis sont si drôles
Lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, LE WEEKEND, samedi, dimanche
Les sept jours de la semaine!

if only i could sing that song to my grade 12 homeroom.....

speaking of which, how crazy is it that i have a grade 12 homeroom? let's be serious, i don't look much, if at all, older than the bunch of them. i wasn't supposed to have a homeroom at all, but when i walked in the school this morning i was thrown a box of planners, magnets, picture forms and locater cards and told to go to a room in the far corner of the school (as far from my actual classroom as you could seemingly get) and tell the grade twelves what to do. hah. i didn't know how to get anywhere around the school let alone tell students who've been at the school for four years what to do. but i mean, who wouldn't want to be the new teacher in a school who gets lost and has no clue what to do? though i cannot truly complain as these grade twelves were far better than the gong show that apparently occurred at south delta today. those grade twelves adopted the slogan "masturbate for grad '08" and chanted it throughout their assembly and wrote that and various other slogans all over their clothes. eek. we raise 'em well in tsawwassen.

back to the french planning. if anyone has a better grasp of the language or the curriculum than i (which should be almost everyone), let me know what i should do to give these kids an amazing semester. for now, we sing!