thursday wasn't my favourite of days. at 8 in the morning i drove to the airport to say goodbye to rachel. she's off to cape town, south africa to do a master's degree and i'm so proud of her for going, but i hate it all the same. rach is essentially the asian version of me and now i'm lacking that other half. the worst part is that i don't know how long she's gone for (maybe a year and a half, maybe two, maybe forever). i guess this is just part and parcel of growing up, but it's certainly not my favourite part.
to take my mind off rachel leaving, i headed on over to my school to teach my lovely little grade 8s. i absolutely love my students - they are ridiculous! when i walked in the classroom, i was greeted by a chorus of "Hi, Miss Salt!" and i couldn't help but smile. I was immediately thrown back into the class.
"Can you help me with this?"
"How do I do this, Miss Salt?"
"Miss Salt, I don't get it!"
the highlight of the day came after lunch. my school advisor (i.e. teacher in the classroom) was trying to demonstrate what kind of hoodie he was looking at buying on EBay. apparently once a year he has the sutdents pick out one article of clothing that they think he should have. this year they picked a hoodie. you know, one of those ones that zips all the way up the hood and over your face. they are absolutely ridiculous, but he's oh so excited. one of the kids (let's call him 'joey') was wearing a similar type of hoodie. my S.A. figured he'd grab it off the back of Joey's chair and show me how it worked. he and Joey nodded to each other, seemingly having some kind of understanding. my S.A. then went to grab the hoodie of the back of Joey's chair. he tugged and tugged, but the hoodie seemed stuck so he tugged a little harder. the hoodie still wouldn't come free to he tugged even harder. this time, to everyone's surprise, Joey and the hoodie both went flying out of Joey's desk! you see, he had the hoodie zipped up about 5 inches around his waist, but his arms weren't in the sleeves. because he was attached to the hoodie, he went flying out of his desk with it. it's a peculiar event to describe, but i must say that i laughed so hard that my stomach hurt. and yes, i snorted three times (and my grade 8's got a kick out of that).
later in the day, as if i hadn't already laughed enough, 'Dan' had one of the best calls. We were talking about maps in math and how you need to decrease the size of a city or place in order for it to fit on a map that you can read (i.e. a map of coquitlam can't actually be the size of coquitlam because that won't fit in the palm of your hand). so my S.A. asked the kids, "what do you do to a city in order to have it fit on a map that you can hold in your hands?". With very little hesitation, Dan yells out, "You CIRCUMSIZE it!". the beauty of this comment is that Dan was actually dead serious. i think he might have meant to say circumference or something like that, but circumsize was the word that actually came out. once again i snorted and the whole class was laughing. oh deary me. my classroom is sure to be a gongshow when i take over again.
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