sick sick sick

I am miserable. I know it could be worse, but having a cold is so blah. My students all made fun of me.... asking me why I'm crying, telling me I look like Rudolph,  lame lame lame. I'm exhausted and I think I'm going to bed now so I can be ready to go for LOST tonight. 

Let me just say that I'm somewhat terrified of my new teen leadership class. Instead of sixth graders, they're mostly 7th and 8th now. And they're so big and scary! How am I going to effectively teach the big ones when I'm so used to the little ones? There's a HUGE difference in maturity levels between them. Now that I have all three in a class, I'm worried about how I can cater to them individually while maintaining classroom control. I have some of the 'bad kids' but I don't want to put them in a stereotype without getting to know them. Then I have full-time ESL kids... so needless to say it will be quite the experience this 9 weeks. Dear Lord, please let me make it through!! 

Off to bed.