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Silly School Story!
You are all probably wondering about the blog title, if you aren't you really honestly should be! It's only the best story ever. I have a student who is autistic and depressed. We'll call him Alex (that is obviously NOT his real name). Anywho Alex likes to "attempt" suicide every other day, by attempt I mean he threatens to do it. Some days it really scares me, other days its just funny. This story is a funny side.
Alex got mad at me this certain day due to the fact that I asked him to do his cursive. At recess he laid over a fire hydrant in despair. This was his attempt at suicide today. I was duty so I walked over to chat with him. The dialogue with Alex is my favorite. To fully appreciate it you need to read it with smoker old man voice.
Mrs. Woodbury, "Alex what are you doing?"
Alex, "uh, what does it look like, I'm trying to kill myself"
Mrs. Woodbury, "Well that doesn't look very effective, maybe you should just roll in the poisonous grass spot"
Alex, "uh thats stupid because of three things 1. grass isn't poisonous. 2. why would you even think that! and 3. besides I'm allergic to cats!"
Now usually I can usually hold on to my teacher face composure but I could not contain my full out laughter at Alex's reasoning! Alex then walked away in a huff and rolled down the hill.
Teaching is a hard job. Teaching is so tough mentally, physically and emotionally, but small moments like talking with Alex makes my job worth every moment!
Mother's Day!
Mother's day is a hard day for me and it comes after another hard holiday, Easter. Easter is the hardest holiday for me at the moment. I like to ignore it and forget it is coming or happening. Easter was the day my Mom decided to stop treatment. Right after Easter comes Mother's Day. But thanks to my wonderful newly acquired family these holidays were wonderful!
For Mother's Day Ryan and I made breakfast for Momma Woodbury then we attended the singles ward with her and Papa Woodbury. It's so fun to go to the singles ward and feel no pressure at all with the meat market atmosphere.
After church we all gathered around the phone for Mark's call from Mexico. It was so much fun and to make it even better we did a 3 way call with Melissa and Tyler in New York! During the call I kinda just sat back and listened. I feel like I haven't been in the family long enough to take time they've been waiting for with the phone call. Also I love to watch and listen to the Woodbury's interactions. (Sidenote: families have their own culture and I love learning the new culture I'm now involved in! It is so much fun getting the inside scope.) So I sat back, relaxed and closed my eyes. With my eyes closed I honestly could feel all of us in one room. It was so wonderful.
At the end of the phone call Mark said the traditional family prayer. I guess Ryan started that tradition with his phone calls. The missionary always gives the family prayer at the end of the call. It was A!-mazing! The Spirit of Family was so strong. I am very shy and private. This moment with the family prayer really made me feel like I belonged there, that I wasn't an outsider.
After Mark had to go back to mission life Ryan and I had a fun time chatting with Melissa and Tyler in New York. Then we had dinner with the parentals.
Dinner was monumental. Like I said I'm a very private person with my emotions and feelings. We ate with the normal dinner conversation and then as dinner finished our conversation moved into the topic of my Mom. It was so good to be able to talk openly about her and not feel worried about turning the atmosphere into a dreary one. We got to talk about all the good times and the hard times I had with her during her last months.
I am so grateful for this family I've had the privilege of marrying into. They are so wonderful to me.
School this Week!
I want to make a new law. My law would say that if you don't give your child their behavior mediation you are NOT allowed to drop them off at school to be baby-sat! With that said you can probably guess how this week went.
One of my autistic boys (not Alex, I have 2 others) did not get any behavior medication over the weekend. His meds are the build up meds. If he misses one day it affects 2 days, if he misses a full weekend you can image how wired he was on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. The thing that bugged me the most was he was running away from my class, throwing chairs, throwing pencils, stabbing students, calling out, etc. Well I can't have that in my classroom. I have 28 kids to take care of I can't give all my attention to 1 student. That is why schools are given Behavior Aides, Secretaries, School Psychologists, Principals etc. but my school didn't get that concept. They would come and get Student from my room but then they'd bring him back 10 minutes later because they didn't have the time.
I was so stressed out and stretched out! I have been a horrible teacher this week because I've had to devote all my time to this student's outbursts. To make matters worse another one of my students lets call him Bob decided that he hated me thus he would not do the work I assigned him. He was rude and defiant and so very disrespectful. I felt like I was dealing with a surly 15 year old. Oh at the end of Wednesday I wanted to quit my job and never return!
But I battled through it. My poor husband was so sweet and understanding. He didn't take my bad mood personally. (and I was in a terribly horribly awful bad mood) At the end of today (Friday) I was exhausted, and ready for the weekend.
I plan on doing nothing but relax today and tomorrow!
WOOT WOOT WEEKENDS!!!!
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