As I have already revealed up here, I am a teacher.  As part of my job as a teacher, I lead tours of Boston.

For a long time, I shied away from taking the students to Harvard.  Not because it isn’t worth seeing or that they couldn’t possibly go there, but I didn’t know what to say about it.  Then one day I went on the official tour of the school.  And it was not that great.  They basically told me what I already know.  We didn’t go over to the other side of the campus on the Charles.  So I made a decision.  I would take the students on the tour myself and throw in Harvard facts I had learned over the years of just being here and hearing about Harvard itself.  The school has a huge part in American dreams and culture.  Why not share this with other people.

On the tour, we came upon the home of a house master.  At my college, these people were called resident assistants, not “house masters” and they lived in rooms, possibly with bathrooms.  At Harvard the house master gets an entire home.  Sweet!  When I told the students that this is where the house master lives, one of them exclaimed “you mean like Hagrid in Harry Potter?!?!?!?!”  And I thought to myself that Harvard is kind of magical in its own way.

Let’s enter that magical world:

My friends read this blog and they know what I do for a living.  But my worldwide fan base (I mean the 40 or so people a day who are directed here by Google) doesn’t know what I do for a living.

So well, after having this blog for SIX years and doing my current job for close to four years, it is time I reveal what it is.

I am a school teacher.  I don’t teach second grade, but rather adults how to speak English.

It is a wild job.  I’m part cat herder, part psychologist, part referee.  You get to know all different types of people in the job.

Here are some of them.

The first:

This hilarious little charmer isn’t my student anymore.  He came to do his homework in my classroom.  I thought that was nice.

The next.  Another adorable charmer:

Just kidding.  Just staircases:

But it was the Hemp Fest, so that was to be expected: