the class

two weeks of in-service under our belts, we had our first week of school!  all of a sudden, friday nights speak to me of pizza and movies.  on one hand, teachers are too tired for wild forays by this time in the week *leave room for exceptions, every week is different!  on the other hand, you don't just want to do nothing...but you do want to be passive, not in charge...so hence the birth of the pizza-movie pairing (instant food and escapist entertainment).  to celebrate first-friday style, i got into oversized sweats and broke out the popcorn to watch "the class" a film by laurent cantent.  if anything, it made me thankful for my school.  it was almost too-real for my evening and not as escaptist as i'd hoped; documentary-like (french with english subtitles so you can at least read the insults the kids are hurling at mr. marin) about a tough inner-city middle school in paris.  it was an academy award nominee for best foreign language film and palm d'or winner 2008 at the cannes film festival, and is based on francois begaudeau's best-selling autobiographical novel of the same title. clearing my dishes and shuffling off to dreamland, i promised myself out loud that i would not be dashing off to france to teach middle school, glamorous as it may sound in theory, the grass is green enough right here under my very own teaching shoes, merci very much...