This morning I overheard a conversation between two of my students about the "Olden days." Jill was telling her friend about cowboys and cowgirls.
"If you were a cowgirl in the olden days you would have really long hair. The women had really long hair because there was no such thing as hairdressers. Or scissors."
How she thinks the men kept their hair short, I'm not sure. Maybe back then the men's hair just didn't grow.
Seriously. What's the deal with the big strawberry-kiwi comeback? Everywhere I turn, it's more strawberry-kiwi.
Why do people think they go together? Peach mango, I get that. Raspberry pomegranate? Sounds great. Notice the similarities in colour, even textures? The only thing strawberries and kiwis have in common are tiny little seeds.
Come on, yogurt producers and popsicle makers! THEY DON'T GO TOGETHER!!!
And really...strawberry-kiwi is SO 1998.
I've been such a lazy blogger lately.
But seriously, I can't think of anything to blog about.
What a lame post.
But it counts.
Today one of my grade 1 boys told me he couldn't run in Phys. Ed. because he was sick.
"Oh," I said, "What are you sick with?"
His reply? "I have the hiccups."
I almost made him run an extra lap.
Today I was telling my students that I'm going to be gone on Friday. Before I could tell them it was to a town nearby for an inservice, Mindy, who is a very quirky girl in grade two, blurted out, "Where are you going, Miss Smith? China?"
To which I replied, "Of course."
And without missing a beat, she replied, "Oh, well bring me back a fortune cookie!"
It's always funny witnessing different students' reactions to seeing their teacher outside of school. Some kids' parents have a lot of teacher friends, so seeing teachers out of school isn't a big deal. Other kids have older brothers and sisters, so the whole teachers as real people is an old concept for them.
Tyler's mom invited me over tonight for a jewellery party. Tyler was happy but underwhelmed to see me there. 3 or 4 more of my students were also there playing in the basement and thought it completely normal that I was around. Sarge, however, is the first of his siblings to go to school and I don't think his parents have many teacher friends. When Sarge saw me, he just kinda stared at me and waved. Then he turned to Tyler's little brother and whispered, "Hey, Tim, that's my teacher." Tim just said, "Ya, I know." Then Sarge grabbed Dallas' arm and said, "Dallas, did you see who's here? Look, look who it is!" And of course, he thought he was being quiet but everyone could hear him and all the moms were giggling.
So just to set the record straight, no, we don't live at the school and yes, we go grocery shopping just like everyone else.
Just in case you didn't know.
