best ever

"She's a teacher, I'm a genius and you're all tools." --Bryan, on why he figured out my response while we played Things
Earlier, he was asking me, "what if my whole family is murdered and I have no one and I only have your email address?" because I told them I would give them my email address if they felt they needed it for letters of recommendation next year, but not my phone number. I laughed and told him, "I'm pretty sure you can find someone else to take you in besides your English teacher of 2 years that lives 2 hours away."

My 1st and 7th bells are done. They were incredibly excited for the end of the year "party", loved their awards and cards and said thank you about a dozen times each. It all went smoother than I thought, which is great.
Graduation was at 3, so basically right after school. It was hot outside, but thankfully cool inside. They read the names quick and graduation was over in an hour. I gave a lot of my graduates hugs, told them I was proud of them and if they ever needed anything, to let me know.

A lot of my students are excited to now be able to add me on Myspace now. I never really use my myspace anymore, mostly using Facebook, and they use it consistently. For them, it's like having someone's email address. They don't use email, unless it's to see their myspace notifications. They use myspace as a way to contact everyone they've ever met. Before they add me, I remind them that they cannot put or do anything stupid on my page, I can see what they do on theirs (implication: I don't want to see your naked body on your myspace, mmkay?) and they cannot be a current student of mine and try to add me as a friend. I have let students contact me through myspace during the school year to ask questions about work, but not add them as friends if I have them in a class. Like I said, a lot of them don't use email (I gave a few of the students I'm close with and a lot that I've had for 2 years that, too, though), they use myspace to contact people. I never quite realized how dependent some of them are on it before this year. It's amazing how much myspace has changed the way younger kids communicate online.