Middle school students have school exams soon, so class turnout is down. When less than half the class is present, we cannot do bookwork, we have to come up with our own activities. Following Dawn's example, I am bringing music into class for listening activities.
Guess what my 15-year old boys in my class requested? Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Jessica Simpson. If they were 15 year old boys in NZ, they'd get beaten up.

what else... the rainy season is upon us, which is good because it cools it down a little, but bad for obvious rainy reasons: wet shoes, frizzy hair etc etc.