The 2 hour conversation....

Unlike what you might think, I do not really enjoy talking on the phone all that much. Which is why having a 2 hour conversation with the people from Orbiz, the bank, and Alaska Airlines was not a happy thing.

Needless to say I have learned a very important lesson.

Never book a flight through orbiz.

By the way, I still don't have a ticket home...

July or October

I was talking to Patience and her family on the phone the other night, and this story was told. In her comments on the last teaching experience she says that I should let you all in on this fun way to start a school year. So here it is.

In one of my classes on the first day of school, the students took a "teacher test." This is really a use-up-class-time type activity, but it can be fun too. What they students do is to take a test about their teacher to see what they do or do not know. Since I was a new teacher in the school, the students did not know anything about me. I was sure the responses to this test would be worth the time they would waste, so I went ahead with the questioning.

One of the questions on the test was "How old am I?"

The students tried to get me to tell them, but I wouldn't. Finally one of them asked me what month I was born in. Since this was not something ath would give anything away I freely told them.

At this point one of the students stopped and said, "wait, I thought you were from Alaska."

I responded that I was, and then he said, "Yeah, but I just didn't know that there was July in Alaska."

I couldn't help but let him in on the secret that the month of July is world wide, and that it doesn't really matter where you are from. He was stunned, but willing to laugh with the rest of us.

The best part of this story is the conversation I had with patience. I say this because I got to talk to all of her children. I happened to ask Chole what she wanted for her birthday. Patience told me later that Chole asked what month it was where I was at. She seemed a little stunned that it was September like in Alaska. Patience told me she had to explain the world wide concept to her as well.

So if this is news to you, let me be the first to tell you that no matter where you are, and where I am, the month is probably the same.

What people really think of me

I was covering a class for one of the football coaches yesterday, and the students and I got into a discussion in which I learned exactly what they thought of me. It went something like this:

By the way, these were the students I have in my normal class, so this wasn't all that odd for them to know who I was or for me to know them, but back to the story.

Them: "Miss Pierce, how old are you?"

Me: "How old do you think I am?"

Them: "I think you are 19, cause you don't look any older than that." "No, I think she is 20, are you 20 Miss Pierce?" "20, you have to be kidding, there is no way she is 20, if she is not 19 then she has to be 18." "I think she is probably older that that, so maybe 21, but no older than 22."

Me: "I am not 18, 19, 20, 21, or 22."

Them: "Well how old are you?"

Me (after some argument from them over this somewhat astonishing news): "I'm 26."

One of them: "Well you don't ACT 26!"

Thanks guys.

And the credit goes to...

As a first post on this new site for you to visit, I thought I would explain the name of the blog. The credit for the name should be shared. Justin gets credit for actually naming the blog, but it was Savannah and her need to say every vowel for creating the name in the first place.

Thank you both.