Sunday, October 23, 2011

Our Houston Lives

We have officially lived in Houston for 3 months now!  Amir is settling into law school and I'm settling into my teaching job.  Law school and middle school are keeping the Roohis extremely busy, but here is a little glimpse into what our lives have become!

Faye's Life: Inspiring kids to love math with my fellow 8th grade math teacher Courtney!

 This was the day of the Math trimester exam so we made shirts and operation headbands to pump the kids up!  "Beast mode" is a saying our 6th team uses a lot that we are trying to adopt more with 8th graders...it stands for Behave-Engage-Always 100%-Slant-Try your best...then we made the e and a into functional notation for the relationship where your Ability to rock this test is dependent upon your Excellence (Algebra joke!).  This pretty much sums up my life...

Amir's Life - This is Amir's study board...its the latest addition to our bedroom decor.  Yes, he literally hung his study guide on the wall across from our bed so that he can study as he is laying in bed, getting ready or just walking through the room...
I don't even know where to begin to explain this but this white board is where Amir writes the flow charts he has to memorize for Civil Procedure.  I don't know what they mean, but there are 3 so far and they are difficult to understand.  Everyone reading this should be lucky they aren't in law school.  As I'm typing this he is standing in front of it muttering to himself about how he'd rather still be on tv...