Socialize!

My math class has to be one of the strangest classes ever.  It's up there with the class in which I blew up a grenade with liquid nitrogen, and the one where we spent what was supposed to be history learning about baseball.  There are about thirty kids and only twenty five desks, and somehow a good third of the desks are squished into the back right corner of the room, which is where I sit.  It also happens to be the highest level of math, which just adds to the oddball quality.  Our teacher, whom I have described before, is a cheery enthusiastic woman, and it's her first year teaching at our school.

The math classroom we are in is inhabited by another math class, one of the lowest if not the lowest level.  In that math class there are only a few kids and a bunch of teachers.  Every week they have a 'social skill of the week' written on the board.  It's like that cheesy soap opera you are addicted to, or maybe fanfiction.  You can't help but look forward to the next one.  This week's: dependability.  The week before that it was 'No excuses', and before that 'Keep your hands to yourself'.  Half the time I'm not sure whether they're not really for our class, knowing some of the people really could use a hint.

Today my math teacher was recounting a story about how she had gone to a party and was telling someone else about the social skills of the week, and they had suggested she do her own.  And then I looked at the board:  right below the social skill of the week was the advanced social task of the week, "write a letter to your grandparents (or someone else that would be really happy to hear from you)".  So to celebrate our shiny advanced social tasks (recently renamed advanced social suggestions) I'll be writing to a few former teachers.  Who wants to join me?

Sachi