Let the music play, worries for another day...
I had the theme song from "Fraggle Rock" stuck in my head...hence today's entry title...
I saw an adult today questioning a child about what he wanted to be when he grew up...for me the answer was always "a teacher" (except for my brief stint in wanting to be a paleontologist, just because the name sounded cooler than ever and you got to work on dinosaurs). Not just any teacher, mind you, but a second grade teacher. I now realize that I don't have the slightest bit of patience for the elementary school classroom, but up until high school, that was my dream. Second grade would be such a great year to teach...I can still remember sitting on the rug listening to our teacher read "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and how delighted I was to try out the fudge recipe in the back of the book (mmmm....fudge...). Elementary school was good times: crafts, show and tell (I think I hauled my mom's carved coconut decoration thingy every year), participating in the magic show for the whole school, falling off of the track glide on the playground (insisting that I had broken my back), being the skipping champion in kindergarten (shadowed only by my lack luster performance in the "Recite-Your-Initials Relay"). I even penned tons of short stories in my youth...yikers, what ever happened to that?!?! I must have stuffed my creativity somewhere, only to wield its eccentric head these days when I prepare grammar worksheets and make my students yodel in front of the library.
Interesting how things change and how people change...
For the time being, it looks like I will be spending the rest of my life working with the 18-22 year old crowd...but that's good, I was telling someone the other day how much I love the atmosphere of a university campus and college town.
And speaking of college towns, I've looked back over the past few months and realized that I have not left the greater State College area (except for weekly, and sometimes daily, trips to Belleville) since May!?!? That just ain't right...
And lastly, my random thought for the week: We don't play enough board games. Put down the books and break out the boards, dice, and play money...but none that require too much thinking. Where are "The Game of Life", "Scattergories", and "Chutes and Ladders"?
Second random thought: What ever happened to "Encyclopedia" on HBO? --- my all time favorite show. Further, what of the Encyclopedia Brown detective series?
posted by Joschka @ 12:13 AM
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I remember "Encyclopedia." I used to watch that way back when. And I also remember "The Peanut Butter Solution," but not well enough to recall exactly what it was about. I just know that I have watched at some point. :)
Hmm, must be after my time. "Peanut Butter Solution" conjures up what we did for packed lunches when we were out of tuna for sandies.
I couldn't agree more about the board games. How fondly I remember the weeks before finals at my undergrad institution, when everybody would suddenly get REALLY into games. We would have about 20 people in our living room of our house, and about 4-5 games going on, including pictionary, cluedo (what we call it in the motherland), shithead (an excellent card game), twister, monopoly (which would last for hours, and usually involved people buying their way out of bankruptcy by selling real cigarettes for fake monopoly money). Ah, those were the days.
Okay, I know I'm a bit behind with contributing comments... Anyway, I want to fresh up the intercultural communication here. Hmm, elementary school. Instead of sitting on rugs we had to sit straight with folded arms and respond to our teacher's greeting "Seid Bereit!" with "Immer bereit!" I once had the honor of being the student who goes up to the teacher after that and announce that the class is ready and who is missing. Then we had "Milchdienst", "Tafeldienst" and "Ordnungsdienst" - yes, we had to clean our own classroom weekly... Yes, those we the times... ;)
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