Washington Academy of Languages

Some ideas are just more “delicious” than others, it appears.

I’m talking about our most recent “Super Surprise Thursday” at WAL. This is when there’s a “mystery” activity happening one Thursday every session, for our English students. It always happens during the lunch hour, but as usual, no details or information are given until the day before the event! Students are kept guessing. Sometimes, so am I!

For example, little did the students know that originally, I was thinking I would do something related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 19) or even for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama (Jan. 20). But those ideas didn’t pan out. It just didn’t seem to work in my head creatively. Time was running short.

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