So today, a little hectic, yet inspiring in a crazy sort of way. Sometimes, just walking into the school in the morning, you can feel the energy of the students. When I get here in the morning, sometimes there are only one or two students here for extended day, but usually I just get a feeling of the way students will behave.
Coming in today, I was very excited for the events of the day, but still, it was pretty crazy in the school. Teachers, administrators, we were all hoping to watch it. We got a message right before students got in that we could turn on tvs in our rooms to the speech if we so desired. Most every classroom in the school have televisions hung from the wall. This school, back in the day, was called “Troost Communication Academy.” Because of that, we have special telecommunication gear, but a lot of it isn’t used, or the teachers who understand it have long since moved on. In any event, the tvs we have don’t have cable, so we had to rig them up to get tv over the airwaves.
Therefore, come inauguration time, the students in my room skipped music (well, we had not music teacher anyway today), and watched the inauguration. Students were excited to see someone who looked similar take the oath, but at the same time were many who were not at all interested. I had three students who decided that this was, “gay.” They found a nap a better use of their time. I did manage to get them all to watch the oath, but for the actual speech, I had about 50% watching intently, 25% doodling and also listening, and the rest comatose in the land of slumber.
That being said, I personally was very excited to see the speech, and am excited to see what is to come, and judging by the number of people who crowded into the Washington Mall, I’m not the only one…
