Chrissy Renae

Wednesdays are typically my busiest days, with six classes all right in a row (well lunch is in the middle) and no real breaks. However, Thanksgiving Miracle week continues, and half of them have been cancelled. This is realllly convenient, because my illness has not quite been overcome and I am low on energy/creativity/patience/speaking ability.

In the middle of my 6th grade class earlier, my voice suddenly GAVE OUT and it was the funnnniest teaching experience I’ve had so far. My co-teacher was gone, so I was in charge by myself, and I truly could not speak anything above a whisper. Luckily they were all very cooperative and kept the volume down so I could talk over them. It was nice to just be alone with the kids today and loosen up a little and get to joke and dance with them. They thought me losing my voice was just HILARRRRIOUS.

That same class is in charge of cleaning my office each afternoon, so I was extra nice to them today because of what they went through yesterday.. The last teacher (or who knows who) left a bunch of milk cartons in the fridge, and so it’s been getting increasingly more and more rotten as the days go by. I’ve just been avoiding going near it or opening it because I wasn’t sure what to do about it, but finally I realized something had to be done because the fridge seal was not going to hold back the rank odors much longer. I offered to clean it out myself, but of course the other teachers wouldn’t have it, so in came the 6th grade boys with face masks and plastic gloves to attack it and scrub the whole thing out. Watching them was sooo funny because we all just gagged and laughed the entire time. Luckily they were good sports about it though, and now I have a clean and fresh smelling fridge in my office. Yayyy.

thanks, boys

I tried to get them excited about today's English song... but the truth is it was really stupid. I don't blame them for looking bored.

This is my sick face.