An EPIC day.

Today was the day to top all days!
Here are a few highlights:

1) School Lunch.
The culprit: Miss Slates
The menu: chicken nuggets (or fish shapes....yes, shapes).
The choice: chicken

I forgot my lunch today and decided to purchase my first school lunch. I walk up to the lunch line with my $3.10 that had been scrounged up from various teachers and proudly request my chicken nuggets. Little did I know what I was in store for. Along with the chicken nuggets came a scoop of mashed potatoes (hold the gravy) and a slice of bread. Yes, 1 slice of bread. I head to the "salad bar" to pick up my dixie cup filled with lettuce leaves and get some ketchup for the nuggets. My last stop, the milk carton station. School lunch experience, check!

2) I have been waiting for this moment since I began student teaching August 19th. No I am not talking about a great review, or even the chance to teach "full time." I am talking about a nose-picking sighting....and today was my lucky day!! 5th grade was in the middle of their lesson and I scanned the rows as the students were echoing a rhythmic pattern. What do I see? A youngster digging away at her nostril!! Nose picking sighting, check!

3) As I was getting ready to leave school, my teacher walks out of her storage closet with a black case. She proceeds to ask me if I know what an autoharp is....OF COURSE!! And through a series of events I managed to walk out of the building with it. I have never been more excited about a musical instrument :-) Autoharp, check!