"I Want to Kiss Your Eye Five Times"

Part of the fun of teaching as a university intern

is realizing that you and the kids

are in the same boat.

They don't like midterms,

and neither do you I.

So, I turned this week's lesson

{with the 9th graders}

into a Mad Libs Love Letter party.

Heck yes.

The favorites:

{click to enlarge}

Too darn cute.

After they finished interviewing each other,

I gave them the Japanese translation

and watched their smiles

turn into grins

turn into riotous laughter.

{Una and the Lion via Briton Rivière}