Teacher's Pet

Remember all the mischievious things you got upto in school? I certainly partook in more than my fair share of buffoonery, and look back on this time with great fondness. Wasn't it hilarious to throw things at teachers? Haha! What a laugh it was to hide the pens and erasers! Hee hee! Let's erase the games that teacher has painstakingly drawn onto the board for our amusement! What an absolute rib-tickler! Indeed. That was then, and this is now, and the tasteful Korean slipper is on the other foot. As you can imagine, remembering my own approach to school ("Chris is extremely capable but also interested in silly nonsense" springs to mind), I allow a fair amount of chaos into the class. But when you genuinely have spent your only free period of the day drawing a massive wordsearch (it's hard keeping those lines straight!) on the whiteboard for the following class, only to find it erased or drawn over, it's pretty bloody annoying!

This went too far one day, and I had to bring in the big guns. Subsequently, poor Tony and Chris (every "Chris" I have is a hooligan of sorts, I'm so proud!), who aren't really bad kids, got a whack on the palms from old "Meme" (the cane), and made to stand hands aloft for 5 minutes. They were crying and I felt really bad, but the kids have short memories, and the next day they were laughing and joking, but also behaving! Seriously though, it IS annoying when they mess up stuff you have planned for them, so I henceforth repent all sins committed against my past teachers. I might even email Craigiebarns, and, more specifically....any teacher I had between 1st and 4th Year at Craigie High, to formally apologize. Actually, maybe I should get drunk on Friday and phone them up. Even better, maybe just phone up and ask for Gay May! That'll be lost on a lot of you! I may be a teacher now, but I'm still interested in silly nonsense you see.

Anyway, the character at the top was designed to give the children nightmares and scare them from rubbing things off my board ever again! It quickly got rubbed out though, as I didn't realise some of the morning kindergarteners were still around, and when they came bouncing in to say Hi I noticed a few bottom lips a-trembling! Ooops!