Wait a minute...I didn´t sign up to teach elementary school...

Ok, so I´m not really teaching elementary school. But it feels like it. (Not just because of the students, but also because I have to ride the big yellow bus with the students....)
So seventh grade day 1: Walk into class and students are running amok already. Strike 1. A girl runs up to me and yelps, "Miiiisss, miiiiiss, Jose just golpear-ed me!" (Golpear is the Spanish word for ´to hit´ p.s.) Strike 2. Try to begin the lesson and students talk non-stop, so we spend continually take ´minutes of silence´ until I finally kick kids out into the hall. Strike 3. (And if there was a strike 4, it would be reading what one of the girls wrote in a letter I had them write to me on the first day: "I can´t always understand you when you are speaking.")Yiiiiikes.
Let´s just say I´m going to have my work cut out for me in 7th grade. They are the craziest class I´ve seen. And their English is not great. The good news is it´s not just me...I guess like half of them failed like half their classes last year (the majority of them language class)...why they are in seventh grade now is beyond me. They are out. of. control. But in a weird way I´m kind of excited for the challenge -- I haven´t really had a hard time with discipline before. So I´m trying to figure out what´s going to work with this class. There are two guy teachers in middle/high school and I think they are the only ones who the kids respect...maybe I´ll have to sit in on one of their classes and see what they do (besides just being a guy who is a lot bigger and scarier than them...which I can´t exactly change...).
Anyway, all my other classes are great! Eighth grade might present some discipline problems too, but nothing like seventh. All the high school classes are great! Well-behaved for the most part and want to learn.
I´m not very happy with the curriculum I have to teach though...looking through the books, it is basically the same things over and over again for 7th through 12th grade: parts of speech, diagramming sentences, etc...so today I started with unit 1 for 10th grade (capitalization) and they were like, "Ahhh we always do this at the start." And it´s true! So it´s super boring for them...I´m going to have to create a lot of curriculum I feel like. But it´s hard because I´m teaching 12 different courses! I want to have them start to write a lot of papers because the curriculum is so grammar-intensive...which is only somewhat useful I feel...
Anyway I tried to not let the kids know that I know Spanish, but I think it´s too late...at recess one of the students was asking another teacher next to me if I spoke Spanish and she was like, "No." And he was like, "Not even a little? Like she doesn´t understand what I´m saying right now?" And I couldn´t really keep a straight face....
The other thing is if you have any color eyes besides brown you are automatically the most beautiful person on earth. If I had a dollar for every time one of my students raised their hand to tell me I was beautiful.....I mean, seriously, I´m in the middle of a lesson!!! Don´t worry though, I know it´s not me, it´s the fact that I´m white.
And here´s a funny story too: So I go to the pulperia (little store thing in someone´s house) to get more minutes on my phone and I have to tell the guy my phone number so he can put more minutes on it. So then I get home and get a random text message that´s like, "You are so beautiful, your eyes are beautiful, have a good night." And I´m like, weird, must be wrong number....and then I´m like ooooogosh I just gave that random guy my number....hahaha. Oh dear.