10 snippets

1) "I keep calling you 'Mrs.' Jones! I think it's a sign you're going to get married soon." I'm ok with that; although I don't think I'll be a "Jones" again.

2)"Miss Jones, why are you in such a good mood today?" why thank you

3) "Miss Jones can we please open the windows?! It's so hot!" (he just came in from PE so I said) "No, it's not hot in here." five minutes later "Miss Jones! PLEASE! I'm hot as a train engine!"

4) One of my 8th grade girls kept holding up the class saying she wasn't done with her quiz yet. After the quizzes were passed in, she and her neightbor were giggling in their seats. Come to find out, she was done with her quiz the whole time, she just wasn't done with the flower she was drawing me on the back.

5) One of my 8th grade boys was really excited one Monday because he had a visitor coming into town who just happened to be a girl. He claimed she was just a friend who was a girl, while his buddies and I agreed it was his girl who was also a friend. Confirming our suspicions, he didn't come to school the next day.

6) One of my Kenyan students loves my American jelly beans so much, so she offered to pay me for each individual jelly bean or work out a system of exchange with my candy of choice. She really REALLY loves American jelly beans.

7) "Miss Jones you hair is dope!" translation- "Miss Jones, your hair looks lovely today!"

8) "Miss Jones, why do you always wear your belts on your stomach?"

9) favorite Kenyan yoghurt flavor name: Fruits of the Forest. cracks me up every time

10) my 6th graders still have about a billion questions a class period. I'll have 5 hands raised within the first 2 minutes of class, before I've even opened my mouth. If I ask a question to the class, they raise their hands and ask me a question. I'm constantly telling them put your hand down if it's a story. Before I let them talk, I ask, "Is it a story or a question?" the typical response, "uhm...well (30 seconds later) it's sort of a comment and a question." oh my, when will they learn?