I have been blessed with many wonderful students. They are all special in their own way, with unique interests and talents. One of my students, whose name has been changed, is very dedicated to the construction of robots, even sleeping on the couch (for several days at a time) in the room at school where he and other students construct the machines. After physics class a couple of weeks ago, he and several other students invited me to follow them to a room in the main building where they have been constructing robots. When I told them that a professor of mine at Purdue was involved in Purdue's Robotics club, their eyes lit up. They said that would like to start a club and fight the robots but that their teacher said ix nay on the ighting fay. I told them to study hard and concentrate on getting into a good college with a robotics club that encourages robot fighting. Tonight, I opened up my inbox and was greeted with the following picture and email.
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Subject: Surprise Trailer
Message:
Hi! Miss. Molly.
This is Billy.
Now the students in Class 13 such as Charlly,Hank and others are working hard about robots.
They told me that they want to finish 4 robots before the 25th in December.
They want to invent you and some other teachers to drive them and have a game as Christmas presents for you all.
I was so excited.
So I decided to join them.
I think that's wonderful.
Are you expecting that day to come?
How sweet! Gotta love those students of yours.
ReplyDeleteI *love* how Billy wrote the message...{sentence structure and grammar} ....you can tell he is working very hard on his English.
I hope you are going to join them. :)
I am going to join them! They are planning it sometime this week (I haven't been told the exact day yet). Last time I drove the robots, it wasn't pretty. Hopefully my hand-eye coordination will have improved since them.
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