Signs Around Town
A few blocks from here is a house that usually has quite a few people hanging around outside the place wearing white tank tops and bandanas. Recently, they hung four “No Trespassing” signs up on the tree outside their place and around their front porch. As if they already didn’t look suspicious.
Scariest sign seen on the block…”Lost pet snake. Please call if found.” and there is a picture of a huge scary looking snake. I was out on a walk when I noticed the sign and suddenly my walk was not so peaceful. First of all, who in their right mind has a pet snake and B) who loses their pet snake. That is something right out of The North Avenue Irregulars (you remember the part where the mom with all the kids is taking her kids to a pet show and she gets in a wreck and the snake gets loose on the street) - pretty much my worst nightmare. My fear of snakes greatly increased when my sweet brother told me snakes could climb stairs…and thinking of a loose snake popping up anywhere along my walk was not very relaxing…yes, I pictured it getting in my house and climbing the stairs behind me. Ahh…nightmares might occur tonight.
Seriously, if I found their “pet” snake, I would most certainly not call them to come pick it up. I would get out of their as fast as possible or kill it somehow. Sorry snake owners - I don’t think you are going to find your pet anytime soon. And please come take down the signs when the situation is remedied…I want to take walks in peace around the neighborhood.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)I’m an 8th grader and I don’t know where to go next period.
School started on Wednesday.
We have a brand new beautiful building which has to be more than twice the size of our old building. The building is free of mold, asbestos, and bad air quality rooms. The best part is my office can actually hold more than three people. It’s funny to talk to the kids about what they think about the new building. Most kids think it is cool, but the common reply from an 8th grader is “it’s huge” said with a big sigh. I can’t decide if they like the hugeness or not. I think we have toppled the typical “rulers of the school” mentality with this new building. The 8th graders look more panic stricken than our 5th or 6th graders.
Today, as I was thinking about my poor confused 8th graders, I thought back to my time as a junior high camp counselor and how one year we didn’t do something the kids had come to think of as tradition (even though it wasn’t really a tradition). The camp kids almost rebelled because we weren’t doing that activity - even though the new activity was way better. My current students are acting the same - wishing for the old rooms so they can be on top and confidently run through the building.
It also seems our teachers are almost wishing for the old. The teachers have started to complain that they don’t feel homey in the new place and they don’t know where to congregate in the mornings. We do need art on the walls and we do need some major kinks worked out, but hopefully we will be able to appreciate the new $32 million dollar building soon.
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