Math Spam

After nearly five months of paperwork...I am finally a substitute teacher for the American dependant schools on this island. I had to go through finger printing, two background checks, a couple thousand pages of application materials (ok that MIGHT be a slight exaggeration), a couple ID checks, and then weeks and weeks of waiting. But today I subbed for a middle school science class, so it's official now! Horray!

In other news, my night job is paying off. I have successfully converted at least two math-phobes into nerds. Yesterday in my inbox I found a link to a math game website from one student:

What Math Freaks Do for Fun

And a picture from another student:

Instead of interpreting this as a commentary on how I make my students feel, I have decided to congratulate myself on the fact that two of my ten students are now surfing math websites in their free time. Let's just hope I don't hear about any math related suicides on the news tonight.

Edited to Add: Make that 3 out of 10 students that have become nerds. When I met with one of my tutorees today, he told me that when he busted out his math book at work, another one of my students started teaching him (or possibly just excitedly babbling to him) about math.