I'm a sucker for ice cream!

The students in my after school 5th grade club class were getting a little rambunctious today, so I changed the subject to ice cream and what flavors we like the most! The kids love talking about ice cream! It's like giving a baby milk or a pacifier!! They immediately settle down and concentrate! Anyhow, 5 or so minutes had passed, and we were still on the topic of ice cream! With 10 minutes left in class, I decided it was time to indulge! I said, "Okay, everyone stand up, put your backpacks on, and line up at the door! We are going to the store to buy ice cream! I'll buy it!" I could have gone def with the "Wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" that quickly followed!

Here they are at the store!


I love that permission slips are not needed, and that I can spontaneously leave and take my students places! It's always for "learning purposes," of course! (wink)

My only rule was that we sit and eat together and talk!

Some of my students love their pictures taken and smile, like Julie (below)!

... and Jackson!

But others, no matter what I say, give a deer in the headlights look whenever I take their picture! It's so funny! This is Leila!


Tommy...

.... and me and Carrie!

After I said my goodbyes to my students, I began walking back to the school with a couple of my 1st grade girls who were playing in the street! I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around, and Leila handed me this mini-coke and said, "Miss Alexis. This is for you! Thank you for the ice cream." This was especially special to me because of how poor my students are... My cup runeth over!

Ummm...

One of my best friends from Arizona (Jill Bould) is a traveling magnet collector! She loves to buy and collect magnets from wherever she goes on vacation! When I was in Europe I bought her one of Paris (I think), and when I came home to visit Arizona in February, I brought her a Korean magnet!

I bought her a magnet of a woman breastfeeding her kid because I couldn't believe how random it was!! It was in a Korean tourist shop and I just couldn't pass it up! When she opened it at Macayo's, with all the teachers around, everyone laughed at how innapropriate and random it was!

But the story gets better! Aaron switched schools this year and is teaching at a Korean elementary school. A couple days ago he said to me, "Remember that magnet you bought for your friend? You'll never believe what my school has? ...A statue of it!"

A statue of a woman breastfeeding at an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!!??? Really?! Come on people!