clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose

I am truly experiencing Texas. All of it.

One of my favorite shows on television is Friday Night Lights. It follows the lives of many people in the town of Dillon, Texas, specifically the Football Team, the Dillon Panthers. This show is straight up Texas football, and I thought it was really exaggerated, until today.

Today was my first day coaching 7th and 8th grade boys football. Along with 4 other, male, coaches, we introduced ourselves. When Coach Rogers got to me, I got cat calls. He reamed them out with a pretty straight face and then continued to completely crack up, and then so did all of the boys. Coach Freidrich silenced them fast by saying, "Yeah, you'll be laughing when she knocks you on your ass." A hush fell over the crowed. Half of them call me coach, half of me call me Mam, I'm definitely more used to the coach title, but I could get used to Mam. After all, I believe it to be the equivalent of Sir, they call all the other coaches sir, so Mam is appropriate. Later, we got the players their practice jerseys, pads, cleats, and mouth guards, ran 'em, talked plays, and ran 'em some more. (I am happy to say that I am the proud owner of a new pair of Nike football cleats.) Practice was winding down so Coach Rogers huddled them up and we all said the Lord's Prayer, followed by Go Hornets! It's different down here, that's for sure. I'm excited, this is going to be really fun.

School today was pretty good. It was a fast day, so I saw all of my kids, but only for 40 minutes. In some classes we did some lab safety vocab, and in some we did the syllabus quiz. I'm crackin down on behavior problems, it's just not going to fly. They're starting to realize it, but I really wish the detThe schedules are starting to be finalized, but I'm still getting random kids in all my classes. "Miss, I'm new!" Is getting old. Can't wait to get those final rosters!

Tomorrow is diagnostic testing. Our department head gave the other 6th grade science teacher all of the answer sheets for the whole 6th grade. So, not only do we have to separate them by teacher, but then once we do that we have to separate them by all 6 periods. Kind of ridiculous.

That's all for now, lots of work to do :)

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

Coach