Thursday, June 21, 2012

Of Fleas and Flies

We were in English class, working on some vocabulary words.  I was concentrated on what we were doing and looked up just in time to see Andreas hit Joshua over the head with his pencil case.  Of course, being the teacher and looking out for the well-being of my students, I was like "Andreas, WHAT are you DOING?"  Innocent as can be, he looks at me and says "There was a fly on his head!"  At which point I completely cracked up laughing.  And you know that when the teacher cracks up, that means the ENTIRE CLASS follows suit!  And you can probably imagine how hard it is to try to get some seriousness back into your class when 21 kids are looking at you giggling. :)  Oh my...

And then, just as I was getting ready to head home, I was handing back some math books to Miss Rocio's class, homeworks that were not done or incomplete that need to be completed.  I was explaining to Yanpier what he needed to do in his book and noticed he had an odd expression on his face.  As I finished explaining to him, he looked at me (again completely innocently) and said, "I just swallowed a flea!".  At which point I cracked up again.  I think he thought I didn't believe him because I was laughing at him and he kept saying "No, I really did!  I'm not making it up!" (which made me laugh even harder)!  I finally had to explain to him that I did believe him, but it was just funny to me what he had said.

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