In Remembrance

Today is a different kind of day. Walking to my destination I feel a sudden vibe of "gloom". I didn't really know why or what I was thinking until later on in the day. Im heading to the school thinking of what might go on in class today. The weather is beautiful, overcast and grey skies with a slight chill are just the kind of days that I really enjoy. Either that or my outfit that I wore today made me really hot because I am dressed professional.

As I enter the main office to sign in, I notice the faculty is extremely jolly and spirited. Mrs. Superwoman makes me feel right at home and welcome's me back to her campus. She even offered me coffee, but I don't like it so I generously declined. Looking around the office I see a lot of Red, White, and Blue. Nothing really crossed my mind but just that they felt really spirited. I signed the log-in sheet and headed to my observing classroom.

I arrived to the classroom and opened the door, the first thing I hear is "Al-Qaeda!!" Instantly I realized that today was 9/11. Mrs. Teacher caught me in a "daze" and said "Good morning Ghostrider, we are talking about 9/11; where were you when this happened?" I snapped out of my quick daze and suddenly see the students faces all towards me and I began to break a quick sweat for some odd nervous reason. I said "Hello class, I remember I was in the third grade when I heard about it. Our tv's were on in the class as we saw the news and immediately was told for us to get under our desk's because we didn't know who else was being attacked." I continued "My father came for me and took me home, we watched the news all day pretty much and I had no clue what was going on so I wasn't really scared but more curious."

The whole class looked at me and had curious faces on their heads. Mrs. Teacher wearing a "United We Stand shirt" told the class "How many of you were born when this happened?" Only 4 students raised their hands and I was in shock because I felt super old at that point in time. We talked about the subject as much as we could only because not a lot of people knew what happened but could only share stories that they had heard. They were too little. Mr. Seahawk said sarcastically "Notorious B.I.G. said that the towers would fall in one of his songs!" I immediately chuckled because I knew exactly what he was talking about while other students were not really paying attention.

I continued to observe the classroom, for these kids being in the middle school, the personalities are extremely different. I notice how some of the girls are acting like they know it all, the guys trying to be class clowns. The shy ones trying to be avoided by me because they think of me as a teacher that is trying to scold them. I try to be the opposite, I want the kids to like me and I try to put them in a comfortable position. Although it was a sad day, I tried to make the kids laugh make the most of the time that I was there.