It's been long enough since I taught my last junior primary classes that the children are now giving me sideways glances as we pass in the playground. I'm wearing casual clothes, holding hands with a five year old (who is taller than many of them) and laughing as I sing some silly ditty. I don't look like a teacher anymore.
So they look furtively at me as if to say: "Is she the one? Was it her?"
But that's okay.
Because as I weave through the secondary students waiting for the bus I am giving them sideways glances. They are wearing blazers and ties, holding hands with the opposite sex (many of whom are taller than me) and singing along to something on their iPods. They don't look like students anymore.
So I look at them furtively as if to say: "Are they the ones? Will I be in front of them next?"
Little kids are funny like that. I get the same sort of glances.
ReplyDeleteAs for the big kids....they are too tall for my liking nowadays - and I mean in general, most of them at least. The winter uniform makes them look even more grown up too, I think!