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Fall Back
It is early as hell, yo.
I have like 50 minutes to do random things before I head out to work. I WOULD just go to work early and clean up the classroom, but I really don't feel like walking all the way to the back door. (Nobody is in the front office to buzz me in before a certain time.)
I guess I'll work backwards....I am thisclose to making an announcement about the book. Some more conversations need to be had, but I am pretty sure that in my heart, I know what decision to make. I can't wait to be able to tell you all what the next move is going to be.
Along those same lines, I recently purchased Guerilla Marketing for Writers. Very very good stuff. Yesterday, I read a lot of this book and did a lot of thinking about the novel(s). This book reinvigorated a lot inside of me that I had over the summer. (That might be a major hint to those of you who know me well, but I still won't say right now what the decision is. Hell, it might change.)
The trick-or-treaters last night...we got so many more trick-or-treaters than we have before. Some of them were BOOTLEG. How you gonna roll up to my house with jeans, a sweater, and vampire teeth? And your parent is there just smiling like it's okay? How much are costumes from CVS? Come on.
Then my neighbors had the nerve to come begging for candy with NO costume! What the hell!? I started not to give them anything, little lazy runts. How dare you.
Yes, I take this holiday seriously.
Saturday, I visted one of my kids in the hospital. Sad. I need to go back and give him a picture of myself, since he asked for one.
Friday was the big "Fall Festival." Long story short, why did my kids act like a bunch of drunkards at an Irish Pub? We sat our first graders at clusters and left a lot of open space in the middle for our table with the food. We had so much candy it was sickening. SO MUCH! Anyway, so these kids kept toasting each other with little huggies. Pure sugar, water, and food coloring. Possibly some cocaine. But they were too young to understand that you say "cheers" when you toast, so they said:
"TOAST!"
Then, after they got tired of saying "Toast!" they said:
"Happy Halloween!"
then:
"Happy Fall Festival!"
then:
"Happy birthday!"
then finally:
"We love you Ms. ______ and Mr. Darden!"
It was cool....they deserved a nice little party. Most of them are hard workers. However, the insanity began when they started spontaneously singing and chanting.
That's why I say they became drunkards at an Irish pub. If they knew "Piano Man" by Billy Joel, I'm sure they would have sung it.
Okay, so first they started singing some random kids songs, like maybe the Pinball number song from Sesame Street, which I taught them earlier in the year. And maybe the bumblebee song. Me and my colleague were like "What the hell?" Who spontaneously sings at a party?
THEN...they went from drunken Irish pub to jook joint/church house/gin house. These bamas started singing the chants I taught them earlier in the day. Imagine thirty first graders chanting:
"Ice ice, baby! Too cold, too cold! Ice ice, baby! The black and gold!"
Oh my lordy. What have I done? The only reason we taught them the chant was to kill about ten minutes of time between an assembly and recess. Okay, more like twenty minutes, because we had time to teach them a variation of "All of my love..."
So of course, the next logical step for the little runts, high on sugar, was to spontaneous start singing:
"Alllllll of my looooove....my peace and happiness....I'm gonna give tooo _________ [name of school]"
After the first verse, why did these little bamas start rising to their feet like they were in church? What the hell!!!
THEN, they were swift enough to remember the other part of the chant that we made up, to be chanted at the same time as all of my love is sung:
"First grade! We are the leaopards! We're in the first grade! We are the mighty mighty leaopards!"
Why did first grade damn near have a probate show? See, this is why greeks don't need to teach, lol.
So anyway, they settled down and enjoyed the five course junk food meal we fed them. It was good though.
Whew.
I have a lot of cleaning to do this week before the regular teacher comes back on Thursday. But the good thing is while she is teaching, I can be grading papers and whatnot.
Okay....I have more time to kill, I think I am going to read some more.
PEACE!
Posted by Rashid on November 1, 2004 7:07 AM
Comments
LMAO...little ankle biters I tell ya...give em sugar and they dont know how to act...*Sigh* I miss my little ankle biters...
Commented by Niki on November 1, 2004 10:29 AM