"Hey, Ms. Sarah, LOOK!"

The other day, I went into another teacher's classroom to ask a student a question. While I was trying to find him/her (I can't even remember, I was so distracted by what happened next), one of my boy students yelled, "Hey, Ms. Sarah, LOOK!" Before I could react, I found myself looking at his pants, ripped right down the front, where I, as his teacher, definitely should NOT be looking. Luckily, he was wearing his gym pants which have some mesh on them, but WHOA, buddy, I don't want to see that!

Today I had an emergency situation. I was about to fill out a professional document that I had to turn in to my principal. I went to pull out a black pen and realized that ALL of my awesome New Zealand black pens were gone. I panicked. I didn't have any other color besides red and apparently here, that's a little disrespectful to write in. I then remembered that at some point during the day (after I had had 5 classes), that I had given it to a student, but could not for the life of me remember who it was. So, being the dedicated teacher that I was, I went to every single class and asked who took my pen. And I found it! And the girl just smiled and said, "Here you go". Doesn't she understand the stress she put on me?! That was 10 minutes of good work time, lost to the pen predicament ;-).

I don't know what you guys do to celebrate happy occasions at your schools, but at ours, we have CARNIVALS (rides and all!) On Saturday, we were required to go for an hour. Dave and I went nice and early when it wasn't very hot outside. We watched the boat ride (the one that goes back and forth up really high) and as I was watching, I noticed that the bottom of the ride was literally RUSTED out in some places. And we thought our carny rides were bad!! :-P