Things went well for the most part.  I was really overwhelmed with grading until I asked our dept chair (the badass lady) for advice.  She suggested having kids switch papers and grade the majority of classwork in class.  Since then things are much easier and I've never looked back.  P.s. The students are ruthless graders.

There were good days and bad days.  Sometimes the kids would leave me notes (I blurred the name just in case the district doesn't like me exposing valuable information, such as the fact that they waste insane amounts of time and paper... but I digress).

Is that not the sweetest thing ever?  Good thing I had that to look to, because not long after that day I saw that some thug had tagged up my beloved conjugation poster for the verb "répondre."
And there's that.



So there's the good and the bad, now it's time for the hilarious:  I had a male student who, one day, began to wear scarves to school.  They were actually more like bandanas but he chose to wear them around his neck.  Every day it was a different color.  After about 3 days of this, he came into class saying, "MIZ!  I gotta new name.  So you can call me SCARF from now on, aight?"  I had a good laugh at this, I mean it wasn't even a nick name, it was just the word of the article of clothing he was wearing.  But he was very serious about the name change, as I saw when I was grading his paper that he turned in the next day with the following heading:
Note the bubble print, especially intimidating.
I lol'd when I saw it.