From the past (all the way from the beginning to yesterday...)

While substituting in a grade primary music class, for which I wore a green sweater (to help the little tykes remember my name):
       5 year-old: "You really like the colour green!"
       Me:           "Yes I do; it's one of my favourite colours"
       Kid:            " Maybe that's why your Mommy called you Mrs Greene"
I'll ask her about that, kid......


"Andrew...why is there a shoe in your trumpet??"
"I forgot my mute"


"Well, I did punch a cow once in Mr Jenkins pasture."
(a line from a scene that a grade 10 drama group wrote)


"I'm just going to sit back, listen to some jazz music and stroke my chicken."
(said by a very innocent, sweet girl, as an improv character who like jazz and raises rare, exotic chickens...)

We need less s and m sound, and more 'aw'.
(I actually said this in a choir rehearsal, when explaining the pronunciation of the word 'small'.)

"While I work with the trumpets, the rest of you sit and quietly finger your parts."
(And while you're at it, try to add in some tonguing....)


 

I teach Music and Drama in a rural high school. There are a LOT of benefits to being a teacher in an Arts Department....

• You can wear just about anything and the other teachers will just shake their heads and mumble something about the 'artsy style'
• You get to laugh (sometimes really hard) almost every day
• Your students are just as right-brained and crazy as you are.
• Nobody questions your judgement, because nobody else in the school knows what the heck you do.
• You get to be at the school long before anyone else gets there and long after everyone else leaves.

I hear and say things everyday that cause me to do one of the following:

1. Laugh uncontrollably
2. Try REALLY hard not to laugh uncontrollably.
3. Stifle myself with every ounce of control I possess.
4. Raise an eyebrow (well...both, really; I don't have the 'one eyebrow' skill) 
5. shake my head and point to the door.

I'm sure there are more...give me time.

I thought I would start writing this stuff down. I don't want to look back in 15 years and think, "This kid once said this really funny thing in Drama class in 2013, but I can't remember what it was." I already sound nuts to most people, and that won't help. 

I am going to rummage through my memory and start by writing things I remember, and then start updating as they happen. I will not use names, to protect the innocent (and sometimes slightly guilty) and I'll set up any quotes that might need it. 

Hope you enjoy!