As pointed out by a few people, I like to make up new words, and this is my newest: Thuglums. It's derived from the English words thug and hoodlum. Fill in the rest. ;) Anyway, my inspiration for this word came from the kids I met today tutoring. Aaaaattittttuuuuude! Ahaahha, but I think they're great already, even though they won't do homework and just talk to each other. I'm praying this'll be a safe place for them to learn to work hard, and to experience God's love. I think it'll be super-hard. But I love it, even though some of these kids aren't much more mature than my grade fives. They were all giggling at a diagram of ovaries today. Oooooooooh boy. But yeah, it's interesting to be back in the same kind of environment I grew up in. It's a lower income area, and I know all those kids really come to play ball, just like in my area. I think I'm going to go pay a visit to my middle school teachers for some teaching tips.
Today made me feel old though. These guys are so young! Plus I was dead tired from working out (not even crazily, I'm just super-unfit!). Thanks for putting up with the whining, Cosma. I swear one day I'll be a lean, mean, running machine, and maybe I'll be fast enough to run away from geese.
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