Mud Wrestling and Other Teaching Techniques

I love to teach, always have, and always will.  But sometimes it's hard to understand what in the world some students are doing in school.  After all, they have a choice: they can register for a course or not.  Simple. Easy. Yes or No.  So, besides wondering, I just enjoy as well and wish I could take a snap-shot of some of my students and years from now, just click and re-run the instant snap-shot, real-live, activities.  Laughter is the only response possible unless I want to invite an ulcer, which I don't.  Because, soon the students will go on to the next class and never again will they be like they are that instant in that particular classroom with that particular book, lesson, or point of view.