One of my ESL III students wanted to do a special type of writing project:

• to write some love poems


• to put them on balloons


• to put them in another teacher's room and pretend they were from me.

How could I say no? They are so convinced that I am in love with her--or one of the other female teachers. I plan on making some sort of comment on my last day with them to make it obvious that they have been laboring under a misconception for two years. This ought to blow their minds; Latino culture is soo homophobic. Maybe it will also help them not miss me so much.