Unbelievable!

A few cute stories for you, dear readers:

Yesterday, I was playing a game with some third grade students.  I put a picture on the screen and they had to tell me a sentence using a certain verb tense to get points for their team.  I try not to use pictures I find on Google, instead, preferring to use pictures from Facebook or old pictures of me.  One of the pictures I used for this game was from a sushi outing / birthday dinner four years ago in which my friend Jess and I ordered sushi with a raw quail egg broken on top:

 

When the picture showed up on the the screen, I moved the cursor around my head, asking, "Who's this?"  They looked at me with blank looks on their faces while one girl shouted, "Noelle Teach-uh?"  I confirmed her question/answer/guess.  Many of the girls asked, "Really?" while one girl, above the rest, shouted, "OH! Unbelievable!"  

Today, with the first graders, I did an activity with synonyms and antonyms.  I had gotten a worksheet and powerpoint online for this activity in which some of the lyrics to a Taylor Swift song are changed to synonyms or antonyms of the correct lyric.  They have to listen to each lyric and tell me which lyrics are incorrect, what they should say and if the two words are antonyms or synonyms.  At the end, once they have filled in all of the lyrics, we watch the music video.  I knew I was teaching teenage girls when they all squealed at the declaration of love and the kiss at the end of the video.  The girls expressed their delight so loudly that after class, Dionne asked me what was going on in my class because she had heard the screams coming from my classroom.  I guess that lesson was a success :)

This morning after morning English, a teacher asked me to clarify some of the vocabulary they learned.  After I helped her, she translated what I had said to the Vice Principal.  Afterward, the following exchange occurred:

Teacher: Tomorrow, I will forget all of this.

Vice Principal: Tomorrow, I forget your mistake.

T: Oh!  You.  Very smart.

VP:  Thank you very muchEE

T: I... love you.

VP: I love you too.

T: You give me chicken bumps.  (to me) How you call them in English?

I. LOVE. MY. JOB.