Showing posts with label grade eight day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grade eight day. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

In which a bunch of small children invade our school and I procrastinate the afternoon away

So, today is a day off school for most people.  Or, as I should say, most sane people.  I happen to be musical, and insane, so I was swept up into Not Sleeping In and Coming Into School to Play Music on my Day Off.  
Ahh, grade eight day.  I happen to love it.  For some reason I take joyful pleasure in shepherding kids around our school, and watching them get lost in our 2 and 1/2 hallway school.  I love telling them that our "swimming pool" had needed to be chlorinated so we would have to skip that part of the tour, and telling them all about the "arcade" and the "bowling alley" in the basement- off limits today, unfortunately.  And watching their faces as they see how much grease is on the pizza is priceless.
So, why didn't I stay today after playing music for them?  Probably because I thought I would end up doing homework all day... what a laugh!  I sure need to kick my butt into gear or my math grade is going to drop right back down to the fifties.  My problem is that I do not have the focus for it.  It doesn't make sense to most people: here's a girl who can practice violin for an hour and a half every day of the week, but cannot stand to sit down and answer a few problems. I just don't like math, that's all.

At least I stayed at school for the doughnuts.