New Adventures In Jr. High
You know - many people have gotten in trouble over blogs and the wrong people finding them. I know a friend who is a teacher whose student's parents found her blog and she got in trouble.
If you ever get offended by stories let me know and I'll be more discrete.
The problem is that when you're a teacher or a youth worker - you have so many good stories because you're constantly watching the awkward teenager show. Yeah- it's quite the show. You laugh - you cry - you scream - you find a corner and you rock in the fetal position at times. It's got all the elements of good drama.
Latest episode in Adventures with Jr. High is we went to the corn maze.
So I'm thinking "A giant maze of corn - how hard can that be? We're going to be finished it in half an hour and then what am I going to do with the kids for the next hour? I hope they aren't bored.
Yes - these were all of my thoughts previous to the corn maze.
Well - this maze was huge and one hour into the maze it was dark, cold, and I was desperately lost in a maze of corn.
It was 9:00 and I had to get the kids back to parents by 9:30. And I was still desperately lost in a maze of corn.
Did I mention it had been raining for two weeks and we were also falling everywhere and kids were getting covered in mud?
I frantically started calling parents telling them not to come to pick up until 10:00.
I had visions of us searching the corn maze until 10:30 and still not finding the pastor's son or the kid who came for youth group for the first time.
Why them - because if you're going to injure or loose a kid it's probably going to be the pastor's son or the kid who came for the first time whose mother doesn't know you. It's just Murphy's Law.
miracle of miracles!! Everyone found their way out of that corn maze by 9:20.
And I guess the kids had been all stressed out because I had told them that they had to be out by 9:00. I was pretty impressed that they were listening and being conscientious.
Other dramas did ensue later. I guess two of the 6th graders chased a 7th grader with a stalk of corn and he called them a very bad word and I'm still working that one out. I tried to explain to the 7th grader that that was how 6th grade girls flirt and they probably think he's hot. I think that helped a bit. But now both parties are going to be writing apology letters to each other.
Especially because I told the kids strictly not to pick, pluck or throw corn. I told them that there were security cameras in the ears of corn and if they got caught little oompa loompas would come and devour them.
Two kids later asked me if that was true.
um.......
If you ever get offended by stories let me know and I'll be more discrete.
The problem is that when you're a teacher or a youth worker - you have so many good stories because you're constantly watching the awkward teenager show. Yeah- it's quite the show. You laugh - you cry - you scream - you find a corner and you rock in the fetal position at times. It's got all the elements of good drama.
Latest episode in Adventures with Jr. High is we went to the corn maze.
So I'm thinking "A giant maze of corn - how hard can that be? We're going to be finished it in half an hour and then what am I going to do with the kids for the next hour? I hope they aren't bored.
Yes - these were all of my thoughts previous to the corn maze.
Well - this maze was huge and one hour into the maze it was dark, cold, and I was desperately lost in a maze of corn.
It was 9:00 and I had to get the kids back to parents by 9:30. And I was still desperately lost in a maze of corn.
Did I mention it had been raining for two weeks and we were also falling everywhere and kids were getting covered in mud?
I frantically started calling parents telling them not to come to pick up until 10:00.
I had visions of us searching the corn maze until 10:30 and still not finding the pastor's son or the kid who came for youth group for the first time.
Why them - because if you're going to injure or loose a kid it's probably going to be the pastor's son or the kid who came for the first time whose mother doesn't know you. It's just Murphy's Law.
miracle of miracles!! Everyone found their way out of that corn maze by 9:20.
And I guess the kids had been all stressed out because I had told them that they had to be out by 9:00. I was pretty impressed that they were listening and being conscientious.
Other dramas did ensue later. I guess two of the 6th graders chased a 7th grader with a stalk of corn and he called them a very bad word and I'm still working that one out. I tried to explain to the 7th grader that that was how 6th grade girls flirt and they probably think he's hot. I think that helped a bit. But now both parties are going to be writing apology letters to each other.
Especially because I told the kids strictly not to pick, pluck or throw corn. I told them that there were security cameras in the ears of corn and if they got caught little oompa loompas would come and devour them.
Two kids later asked me if that was true.
um.......
posted by Kendra Fehr at
10:01 AM
1 Comments:
Oh, man, Kendra! Your stories bring back memories from when we worked with youth in Vancouver! ;-) I LOVE them. I'm starting to fight pregnancy insomnia, so a plus side is I get to hear the birds sing at 4 am. ;-) There's that bird that always sounds like, "When the moon hits your eye, like a BIG pizza pie, it's amore." God smiling, I'm sure, too and enjoys his "serenata".
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