My classroom is at the back of the school and I happen to have a car park just outside of my room. So when I arrive at school I drive down to the back of the school, park the car and walk a couple of metres into my room.
This morning as I was going down the drive it turned out to be a good thing that I was properly awake, as the chain was across the drive. So I got out of the car and unlocked it. The school van was there, and the Kapa Haka teacher was in it with kids and whanau, getting ready to leave and go to the regional competitions, which was great as I got to wish him all the best with that. They have worked incredibly hard for this competition and are hoping to get into the national competition... so it was good to wish them luck today.
And got in the car and drove back down to the park. Got out of the car and saw another teacher. She was in a fine dander, all very upset about the chain being on the drive. Almost unable to speak because she was so angry. She gets here at 6.15 and can't drive up to her room - it makes her so ANGRY! And yet she has a key to the chain, as every teacher on the staff does... I can't be bothered with getting angry about having to open the driveway chain...
Mind you I had a bit of a paddy at home this morning. I asked kid 1 if he had his rugby gear in his bag, so he went to look in his room - his theory is if it is not in his room it is in his bag. My theory is if you were holding the bag at the time, you could have LOOKED IN THE BAG. And the other one was just impressively winey and weepy and pathetic. He really just wanted to sit down with someone and watch the movie, but all the someones had a lot of other things to do... so he made a fuss about EVERY DAMN THING to get some attention.
Its a mad bad crazy mixed up world... but I do like it. And I get to feed my own fish when I get to work which always starts the days here well.
Edited to add the next day THEY WON! THEY WON! WE ARE SO HAPPY!! THEY ARE GOING TO THE NATIONALS NEXT YEAR!!!
Posted by Toni at June 20, 2007 08:12 AM