Grapevine and Substituting

This is a video I put together from my family's trip to Grapevine, TX. There some footage from the Fort Worth Water Gardens, the Dallas World Aquarium, and the Grapevine Botanical Garden. The best part of the trip was definitely getting to see Christy for two and a half days.



Today was my first day as a substitute teacher; I worked at one of my old elementary schools (Robey) and filled in for the music teacher there. It was a handful. I had kids from Kindergarten to 3rd grade. I found that the older the kids were, the better I could expect the class to be. Thankfully, my schedule was only for the second half of the day. Kids were stabbing one another with sharpened pencils, crying because someone said that the kid was in love with one of their classmates, or running around and hiding. All we did in class was I put on some music and they colored for thirty-five minutes.

But one class was different.

I brought my guitar and played for one of the 3rd grade classes. At first, they all sat quiet waiting for what would happen. And when I started playing a little bit and singing, they all started laughing. I stopped, and wondered if I really was making a stupendous fool of myself. I asked why they were laughing and they said it was cool, they never had a teacher sing and play guitar before, so they were surprised. I finished the song, and played it two more times--at their request. One girl in the front row I could tell was really enjoying it. So much so that she drew a picture of me holding a guitar with hearts all around it, and wrote "I love your music, you rock, ya, the one and only Mr. Meador." And another girl drew me a big multi-colored heart. A couple of the boys before class was over asked me to draw a guitar and then asked for my autograph.

That was the high point of the day.

I don't have much to go on, but I think I'll enjoy teaching junior high math tomorrow much more.