Kate's Blog

It's been awhile since I've blogged because I've been busy teaching and starting up the school year activities that fill my life. Although the busyness is crazy I enjoy the small funny things that happen each day in my job. I thought I’d share a couple with you.

Last week my students did a vegetable lab. (Yuck!) I demonstrated how to make Brussels sprouts, asparagus, turnips, parsnips, eggplants, and some more common veggies and then the next day the students prepared them. After my demonstration I let students sample the vegetables and a very strange thing happened... they started arguing over who got to have the last Brussels sprout and who got to have more asparagus. Once I calmed the argument down and they were all quiet I looked at them and said "Did I really just witness a bunch of teenagers fighting over vegetables?" We all then took a few seconds to laugh at the irony of it all.

I also had a student ask me how to spell CPR last week to which I responded, "C, P, R." She asked, "Are you sure?" with a strange look on her face and I nodded in confidence. She then looked down at her paper and wrote "See Pee Are" down on her paper. It reminded me of a small break down I had when I was about her age. It was when Microsoft Windows was new and my dad installed in on the family computer. I had homework to do and my father was out of town so he was giving me directions on how to load windows through dos, since that's how it was done back then. He kept telling me when the C:// showed up all I had to do was type "win" and press ENTER. After a few minutes of frustration and me near tears my dad asked me to tell him exactly what I was typing to which I responded "when". We cleared up the issue and I realized then on that most computer prompts stood for something so I just had to figure out what each acronym or abbreviation stood for. It just goes to show you how important clear communication is.