Round 3--

Started things off Monday with a simple name-go-around (so I could learn their names), plus a mini-prompt: "State your name and one thing you really enjoy doing." Here's what came up as interests: climbing mountains (me), drawing (Dion), the from the inmates-- spending time with my family, spending time with my kids, video games, hunting, yeah, hunting-- me, too, motorcycles (-- "Are you a harley guy?"i asked. "well, i have a shadow," he replied--"like a harley, but it doesn't break down...")

As each guy checked in, he had to first go through the names of the guys before him: he's Toby, he likes the mountains, he's Dion, he likes drawing, etc.-- and they took a little poetic license and changed things as they wished-- he's Bill, he likes killing things-- Nope! I didn't say that! I eat what I kill, though-- he's Danny, he likes fake harleys"

Then the next guy: I like playing my guitar. He was the guy that walked into the room and said, "this is where we had the guitar class before (i wasn't aware there was a guitar class)-- yeah, I can sense it-- a little Eddie Van Halen in here." Guy's about my age, definitely referring to the music I grew up on. "So what do you play?" I asked, "classic rock, van halen, Zeppelin? -- Ah, anything, man, I like it all." He went on: "Hey, you know that one guy that sky dived from way up, like space, into the atmosphere?" (Other people knew what he was talking about, I'm not so sure-- gonna have to look it up.) "Yeah, anyway-- I wanna be like that guy! Except when I'm cruising down towards earth, I'm gonna have my guitar, and I'll be wailing away on something!"

Well, dang man-- that's a first. Don't think I've heard that one as a personal goal.

"You bet, man!" he confirmed. "That's gonna be me!" This guy has plenty of energy every class thus far. I'm not a big one for using explanation points in my writing-- I've seen too many middle-school girls use them in their writing just about every other sentence, but this guy-- he needs the explanation points after pretty much EVERY thought and statement. He delivers them ALL with gusto...

So anyway, art homework? "Draw yourself as you introduced yourself-- engaged in that favorite activity. "

"You got it man! I'm gonna draw that tonight!" He assured me. Let's see what he comes up with-- I'll try to post it next week.