Another commentary on being a teacher...

Some people have mixed reactions when I tell them I'm a teacher. Take today for example:

Girl: He's a teacher at a high school.
Other girl: He's a teacher???
Me: Yeah, I teach kids....can you believe that??? They entrust ME with kids! (as I'm putting on nail polish and taking in the fumes. No wonder why girls polish their nails.)

Girl: I can tell you teach grade school. When you hang around them all day you act certain ways.
Me: What??? How?
Girl: I dunno, just in the way you talk.
Me: Huh??? (as I have a facial mask on while cleaning up after the cookies someone made)

Where do they come up with this???

Today was awesome!  Even though we didn't even start getting to the nitty gritty~the music~I still had a blast getting to know the kids and vice-versa.  I made up a questionnaire for instrumentation, contact info, yada yada, but then I threw in a few random questions that I got with the help of my friend David Eff.  One of them, "What would you do for a million dollars?" produced the best results:

• Invent something, get on a wild pony in the wild pony races @ rodeos
• kiss michael jackson/pants him; pants a british guard 
  
• run into a class and yell the loudest as can
• sing with music in front of 100 people Then find a cure for cancer (both important)
• play my worst insterment
  
• Something that seems difficult then find a loophole
  
• go and bye a monkey
  
• catch a crocidial!
  
• jump up and down patting my head and rubbing my tummy. (a million dollar feat!)
  
• I would be a p orn  star  (I wonder what his parents would think, should I tell them?)
• brak my leg
• I would Jump of a Cliff
  
• steal a million dollars (I think this one is clever)
• I would Be a suicid Bomber (This one is brilliant!)
• enter the lottery.
• jump off a 6 foot cliff
  
• marry someone rich
• Kill someone if I had to wear a bow tie  (I had just barely told the class they have to wear bowties for concerts)
• I don't care
  
• Eat Raw Fish...?
  
• A better question is what would you do for a klondike bar? (get a million dollars?)
  
• quiz school and buy what ever I want (I think English is exactly what this student needs)
  
• as little as possible
• Fergie (This bright little mind would do anything!)

And a two question favorite:

What would you do for a million dollars?

"buy the school board out"

Why is music important to you?

"Because I don't like it"

On another note, tonight after a day of work driving back from Magrath I saw the city lights of Lethbridge appear and it was the first time genuinely feeling like I was coming home.