Why I love teaching freshmen...

Sometimes I forget the sheer joy it is to teach the bottom rung of the high school totem pole. Sure they may get picked on for being short and having high pitched voices... but freshmen sure are innocent. You gotta love their innocence. Yesterday, one of my students came up to with the look of utmost concern and asked, "Mr. Hung, what is THIS?!" pointing to a tiny tiny zit above his lip. So I sensed his genuine concern and asked him, "Have you gotten something like this before?" and he worriedly replied, "This is the second time". Being quite experienced in the world of acne adventures, I proceeded to give him advice. Just think about it though, can YOU remember your first two pimples? How cool is that?

Wedding Video Montage

Check out a video I made for my cousin...

Weather Man

Lately I've been pondering the question "what would you do if you weren't doing what you do now?" and I think my answer would be meteorology. I always loved watching the 5-day forecast when I was younger (and still do). My family always turned to me with any weather-related worries. It was mostly due to my addiction to golf and how so much of it depended on the weather conditions. Actually, maybe a lot of it had to do with Groundhog's Day. Nate and I loved watching that obnoxiously repetitive movie (especially that one bar scene that we often reenacted with our glass of milk at the kitchen counter... haha....). At any rate, I guess the reason I thought of blogging about this is that there is one thing that really bothers me about our local newscasts. No matter what channel or time slot, whenever the anchors sign off (always after the sports guy), they never let the weather man say goodbye! What's up with that?

Funny Questions

I love how my students look up to me. Not in a vain or conceited kind of way, but in a funny and comical way. While I am obviously older than they are, I do not feel at all out of touch with the youth culture of today (c'mon now, it hasn't even been a full decade since I graduated from high school!) Anyway, I often get the funniest questions that have a lot to do with age. Let me try to remember a few:

1) Mr. Hung, did you used to have cameras that you had to crank?
2) Mr. Hung, were teachers able to beat you when you were in school?
3) Mr. Hung, what did you do without computers and calculators?
4) Mr. Hung, do you have a son in high school?

Oh the innocence of the young...

Field of Dreams

A few weeks back, the San Francisco Giants honored SFUSD teachers and all the high/middle-school math teachers were offered free tickets as part of Teacher Appreciation Day. Not only did I get free tickets, but I was also selected to take part in a pre-game home plate ceremony. It was quite an experience to be walk out on the field and see myself on the jumbo-tron. However, it was pretty lame that we were relegated to the upper deck after getting a teasing taste of the field level seats (did you know that there are seats BELOW the field right behind the backstop?!). It was funny how the superintendent-after finishing his speech--buzzed right past us to his premium lower level seats-- way to take one for the team boss.
Anyway, here's a picture of me on the field and then me with the love of my life. She's rockin' the giants shirt-- which she always does every time we're at the game-- what a fan!

Sporting the Thurgood baseball jersey that belongs to one of my students!

Hangin' out with Lou Seal

She's better than a Shaboygan Bratwurst!