Every day I have the privilege of communicating with a large age range of students. I am constantly amused, shocked, disheartened, and lifted up. Today was uncommon in only one way - I actually remember two of those conversations.
Conversation #1 (8:15 am):
Me: Good morning!
2nd grade girl: Hi! I really like the song "Nowhere Man" because it reminds me of my friend that moved away.
Me: Oh, really? How so?
2nd grade girl: Yeah. Because she moved away and now I don't know where she is. (She begins singing) He's a real nowhere man. Living in a nowhere land...
I did not know quite what to say as the conversation continued, mostly one-sided, into her love of the Beatles, how she thought the TV in her basement was broken until her mom realized it needed plugged back into the wall, which is a good thing because there is a movie in the VCR from the Library, but not the school Library, the Library behind the school. And she also loves Kung Fu Panda and Atlantis 2.
Conversation #2 (11:35 am - cafeteria):
1st grade boy: (walks up to me holding his crotch, panic shooting from his eyeballs) Can I go to the bathroom?!?1
Me: Yes, go, hurry.
1st grade boy (upon return from bathroom, hand over mouth, whispering): Someone pooped in one of those toilets thats stuck to the wall.
Me: The toilets that are stuck to the wall?
1st grade boy: Yeah, those long toilets that are stuck on the wall.
Me: Oh! The urinals? Okay, go let the custodian know.
Seriously. Conversations that take great listening skills as well as deciphering skills and a bit of imagination.
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