she can keep up with a good nerdy conversation and gets very animated and passionate about things she's into. i'll probably say this is only her second year teaching at that school after being in a different district before that, so she's finally feeling like she's learned the ropes after a full year there. she'd be teaching at least some of his kids from the previous year, so they could have fun talking about that as well. she likes second grade because they're still young enough to be sweet and like to give hugs and write their teacher adorable notes.