Yesterday I taught off campus. One of the off campus students won't be joining us anymore as he is more moving on. I was so moved when I heard one of the on-campus students cheer him on as he said good-bye, "You got this, Tom."
Teaching off-campus, as usual, was so moving. Tom told me I was doing a good job with the class as he said good-bye. Another student told me to share his homework with my dean, because I told him on his homework that it was top notch work; he said reading Aristotle is really hard for him, but he said it's getting better. They all expressed that they want this class to continue to be offered there. Several students looked different (I hadn't seen them for two weeks) with spring hair cuts. I saw once student as he looked at his homework grade break into a smile over his first A-. There's really so much joy there.
In the evening, we had Q's fine arts night. Lots of chaos, of course. But it was nice to see some of his friends. And a friend of Blaze's sat with us. We got to see a tall tale he wrote and some of his other work. We got to see the kids do a southern line dance, which was much better than the ukulele strumming and the "boom wackers."
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