First the birthday party: Everything started out great; the room was decorated beautifully, students sang, flower candle lit and wish made . . . We were in the middle of cutting the cake when the teacher that let the students have the room and was kind of supervising told them they had to pack up and move because there was going to be a meeting there. ???? If there was a meeting scheduled then why did he let them have the room to start with? Anyway, we started trying to get everything packed up and moved (balloons, cake, food, drinks, candles, etc etc) But were to go? The only room they could find open was the computer room. Geez, trouble just waiting to happen. I was not happy with the choice but they all moved in and we went back to cutting the cake and ran out of plates. What did they do? just took their forks and went to eating from what was left of the cake!! How did it taste, you ask. I don't know because I did not get even one bite of it!!!! Hahahahaha LOL I swear! Not one single bite! Then I made the mistake of hitting one of the balloons at one of the students and then they were all hitting them and they were falling in cake icing and then getting it all over the computers! Took me a minute to get them to stop and make them clean up. All I needed was them to spill drink or something on the computers. After I got them to clean up some of them decided to sing to me. They are actually pretty good singers. Then they decided we would go up to the gym where we would have more room. People were playing and we ended up on one of the roofs in the dark!!!
I got several beautiful hand-made cards, some candy, and a teddy bear. The students were soooo disappointed that they had to move rooms and were worried that I was disappointed. I assured them that all was okay, to not worry, that I was very thankful for the trouble they went to, that the room had been beautiful and the cake was beautiful. (I did not mention that I didn't get any).
Halloween:
I now know how employees feel when they first open the door on black Friday!!!!! I was afraid that someone was going to get hurt in the mob that descended on my office as soon as the bell rang for dinner! Everyone was pushing with out-stretched hands to get to the door like I was giving away 64 inch TVs or something instead of a couple pieces of candy!! I finally had to threaten to close the door and not give out anymore if they didn't stop pushing and line up down the hallway. Sill it was a little edgy until most of the crowd was gone.
I decorated my office door and window with bats, witch, ghosts, dead tree and graveyard, and a jack-o-lantern (they loved the jack-o-lantern). I dressed up in black, made a witches hat, and used some black cloth to make hair. I used green make-up powder to make my hands and face take on a green tinge. I am pretty sure the kids got a kick out of it!
Some of the Senior 2's saw me and came to see what was going on. They would walk up with their hand out and I would just look at them. Of course I was waiting for them to say "Trick-or-Treat" and they did not know they had to say anything because they had not had the lesson I taught my Senior 1's. I would grin. They would grin back. Then either someone would tell them what to say or one of my students would come up and say it to get their candy and then the Senior 2 students would grin again and say "Trick-or-Treat". It was sooo much fun!!! I bought six 5K bags of candy and I gave away at least half of it, two-three pieces at a time. So I had a great turn out!
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