eternally optomistic

so i can't just leave my blog like that! so funny story...or maybe you have to be there. either way.

every morning when i go to panda class i usually just walk in but the students always say "amber teacher! knock knock!" ok, ok, so i go back to the door and knock, "whos there?" "amber teacher!" which then i either get "come in!" or "don't come in" which i allow because they used to say "no come in" and i told them too bad! learn better english! so i taught them "don't come in" and respect if they tell me that. good way to waste classtime - but also aren't we supposed to teach our children to say no and have adults respect our boundaries. :)

so its before classes start and im sitting at my desk organizing some papers and making sure i am ready for the morning classes and some of the students from panda class are getting some water to drink. so on of the students, danny, goes back into panda class he knocks on the door.
"knock knock"
"who's there?"
"amber teacher" and he cracks up! and me sitting there just about start rolling on the ground. he had no idea i was right over there until he heard me laughing. so now that is the on going joke and i'll hear that about 12 times a day.
as a nice rebuttal when i knocked on the door this morning and when asked "whos there" i said "danny." and we all had a good laugh. :)