So a couple of days ago I get this awesome card from the Morrisons. Inside was their New Year's card and a pic of all the kiddos. Well I stapled it up behind my desk and so of course all my students ask who they are and I say they're my cousins. Well this brought on two hilarious conversations with two different classes.
The first one happened with ine of my older classes. They looked at the picture and asked who they were and I said they were my cousins. They looked a little harded and one girl pointed at Alex. "He must've gotten your mom's sibling smile!" I was like what? And she explains further by saying that "you and him smile exactly the same." And she was darn proud of her observation. Then I told her that he was adopted and they looked at me and she goes "teacher you never told us you were adopted." This brough on my telling them the story Mom told me about at the life insurance office and the lady asking "where'd Byron come from? In the midst of all the J's." My students thought that was funny.
The second one was with one of my middle level classes. They saw the picture and then one girl asked if they were mine. And I said that I wasn't married and I didn't have any children. Then one of the girls goes "don't lie to use and hide them from us. Samuel (another older teacher) shows us pictures of his child." This brought on my question "how old do you think I am?" I will admit the guess of 37 cut a little deep. Then when I was done showing them my driver's license just so they'd believe me one student said "Teacher at 28 you're still old enough to have a family." I asked her why she'd been talking to my mother or my grandmother before she came to class and she understood that and laughed.
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