November 12, 2004
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So I just got from Elementary School . . . I definately went back to third grade! Lisa’s mom teaches third grade at Foothill Elementary, and today was art day so Lisa asked me and another friend to help them out. It was so much fun. I love kids.
Seriously, that was such a big self-esteem builder. They just love you simply because you’re new. They don’t care what you look like or talk like or draw like or throw like or act like. They just accept you no questions asked. It’s awesome. Actually I take that back. They do ask you questions- a billion questions, but no matter how you answer them, your answer makes you look cooler. Kid: “Do you go to college?” Me: “Yeah” Kid: “You do? That’s so cool. I wish I went to college.” Another Kid: “Do you go to BYU” Different Kid: “BYU is college, duh” hehehehe.
I showed them how to make crayon drawings and then water color over them. It was so cool to walk around and see the different things they drew- robots and dragons and rainbows and octopi and volcanoes. They faught over the couple pieces I made, and then Kate, David (who wants to be an “art major” when he grows up), and Jake each gave me a picture that they had made.
Then it was recess time. I felt like a white scientists studying indigenous cultures and being inducted by the natives of some foreign island. They showed me this thing called four square. I had forgotten completely how to play. Every one of them wanted to share with me some secret as to how to win. They also wanted someone to knock Jake out. Apparently he’s the four square king. He was not happy when Lisa got him out.
After Recess we cleaned up the room and played kick ball as a class. It’s not often, not often at all, that I am fought over when it comes to picking teams. It felt pretty good.
Anyway . . . that was that. Seriously I wish I could go back and be eight again. Knowing what I know now . . . I wonder how differently I would do things. One thing I know, it is a foreign world they live in. It’s a shame that we old people have forgotten what it’s like to be innocent, trusting, creative, accepting, loving, care free, and confident.
It’s also a shame that my Fridays are speant writing research papers, as I am about to do now. What ever happened to “art day” with crayons, four square, and kickball. I wish I had a big kid to throw my arms around and look up to. Instead all I have to look up to are old people. That’s a scary thought.
Comments (5)
that sounds like so much fun! i miss my sunday school kids…have an awesome weekend!
Hey! Wow, I do miss my little elementary kids too! Nothing like choreographing a dance and having them think you’re like the best they’ve ever seen. Anyways, hope that you’re having an awesome day!
So when you say the faught over you for teams you do mean that they were trying to give you to the other team right? LOL It sounds like an awsome exsperiance. And I think that we all would like to go back to the 3rd garde and know everything we know now. Take Care Danny Boy
~John
You can be someone elses big kid though, that part is great
i like the pics on ur site , seems like u always have fun there!! i cant wait to go to the states!! So where in IL r u from ? i know ur now in BYU-provo.