Dancing the Night Away
Hello silent lurkers (little encouragement to leave comments there...)!
I apologize for the lack of updating the last couple of weeks. Turns out teaching full time makes one very busy! Hard to believe I only have a week or so left...I'm just getting comfortable with these kids. Oh well, I've been assured that I can supply teach them whenever I want :-)
So, no posts, but I was keeping track of a couple of things I wanted to write about. The first is that a couple of weeks ago, I spent my Tuesday night supervising a school dance. I'm officially old. I found the kids very, very funny, but not because they were trying to be.
It was a semi-formal, so the girls were all dolled up in very nice dresses, some with gloves and corsages and so forth. The boys weren't allowed to wear jeans, so for the most part dressed alike - okay pants, button shirt and a tie that at least started the evening done up properly. And gleaming white sneakers. The first couple of kids I saw that way I felt sorry for. Poor them, they either don't have the money or the fashion sense to realize that running shoes and dress up don't go that well together. But then I saw another, and another and another. And it's not just running shoes. It's specifically all-white high-cut shoes. Turns out it's a "look" :-) Who knew?
The dance itself was fun. I saw breakups and hookups. My job was to basically make sure nobody fought and nobody had sex in the gym. Don't make love or war is the school's motto. And the kids had a good time. But things have changed a bit since when I was a high school student...and somethings have remained the same.
Different
- dance on a Tuesday night
- starts at 7pm ends at 10pm!
- only allowed in between 7:00 and 7:30. After that, tough.
- all of the above seem intent on stopping drunk students from showing up
Same
- Much Music Video Dance!
- the music...despite all this newfangled stuff on the radio, the biggest cheers and most dancing came from, and I kid you not, "Cotton-Eye Joe", "Greased Lightning" and "Old Time Rock and Roll" (yes, Bob Seger)...don't know if it makes me feel old or young that I knew the songs they all liked!
Anyhow, fun times at a high school sock hop. Nobody got drunk that I saw and nobody had sex (again that I saw), so I did my job. And put in some face time with the VPs at the school :-)
I apologize for the lack of updating the last couple of weeks. Turns out teaching full time makes one very busy! Hard to believe I only have a week or so left...I'm just getting comfortable with these kids. Oh well, I've been assured that I can supply teach them whenever I want :-)
So, no posts, but I was keeping track of a couple of things I wanted to write about. The first is that a couple of weeks ago, I spent my Tuesday night supervising a school dance. I'm officially old. I found the kids very, very funny, but not because they were trying to be.
It was a semi-formal, so the girls were all dolled up in very nice dresses, some with gloves and corsages and so forth. The boys weren't allowed to wear jeans, so for the most part dressed alike - okay pants, button shirt and a tie that at least started the evening done up properly. And gleaming white sneakers. The first couple of kids I saw that way I felt sorry for. Poor them, they either don't have the money or the fashion sense to realize that running shoes and dress up don't go that well together. But then I saw another, and another and another. And it's not just running shoes. It's specifically all-white high-cut shoes. Turns out it's a "look" :-) Who knew?
The dance itself was fun. I saw breakups and hookups. My job was to basically make sure nobody fought and nobody had sex in the gym. Don't make love or war is the school's motto. And the kids had a good time. But things have changed a bit since when I was a high school student...and somethings have remained the same.
Different
- dance on a Tuesday night
- starts at 7pm ends at 10pm!
- only allowed in between 7:00 and 7:30. After that, tough.
- all of the above seem intent on stopping drunk students from showing up
Same
- Much Music Video Dance!
- the music...despite all this newfangled stuff on the radio, the biggest cheers and most dancing came from, and I kid you not, "Cotton-Eye Joe", "Greased Lightning" and "Old Time Rock and Roll" (yes, Bob Seger)...don't know if it makes me feel old or young that I knew the songs they all liked!
Anyhow, fun times at a high school sock hop. Nobody got drunk that I saw and nobody had sex (again that I saw), so I did my job. And put in some face time with the VPs at the school :-)
posted by Mr. G. at 8:35 p.m.
5 Comments:
Hey Warren! You've pulled me out of lurkdom. I'm enjoying your tales of your adventures in the classroom!
What, no breathalizers?
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/061129/K112908AU.html
*laugh* No, no breathalyzers yet...but I'm sure it will come to that soon enough!
Thanks to both of you for waving from the shadows of lurkdom!
Hee, Labrat enjoys the link to a hilarious story from his old high school back home. Too funny. And yet, not very shocking/surprising either ... :)
I refuse to be guilted into leaving lurkdom. You get the comment but you won't know who it's from. ;-)
Oh, cute story too.
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