Teacher Sweaters

The snow falls and the teacher sweaters come out. The school was full of teacher sweaters today. It seemed like everywhere I turned I saw one. My favorite was probably the one with Christmas trees with buttons.
Things you don't learn at teacher school: how to find the perfect teacher sweater.

China is so cool! The more I learn about it, the cooler it gets. If you have a chance, definitely look into China.

Golden Nugget: Putting 'million' vs. 'billion' into perspective. Say you had $1 million. You had to give away $1 every second until you were out of money. At that rate it would take about 12 days. Keep in mind that's every second, 24/7. Now if you did the same thing with $1 billion, it would take about 31 years. 12 days vs. 31 years? Wow!

Another Golden Nugget: China's population is about 1.4 billion. If you're like me, you're probably thinking "1.4 billion, ok cool, whatever." But think of it this way...take the total populations of the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, the rest of Europe, Canada, the US, Mexico, and Central America. Combine the populations of all of those countries and that is about equal to the population in China. All those people live in the space about the same size of the United States. China just blows my mind!

The Teacher's Lounge is a magical place. Its full of entertainment, F-bombs, and so much other wonderfulness. Today one teacher taught me about crop dusting. If you don't know what it is and are curious, look it up on Urban Dictionary. It is a very useful skill for anyone.

Great quotes:
At the end of the weekly Podcast, there is a song played and the first class to email the title and artist wins.
Student: "They should play ABBA. Like really, they need some ABBA."

Student: "The square root of pi is...Rainbows!!"

MT: "Since the Chinese invented paper, next week I'll bring in a recipe so we can make our own paper."
Student: "Is it easy? Cause that would save my parents a lot!!"

MT: "Who remembers the name of the leader of China?"
Student: "Saddam Hussein!"

Student: "Someone wiped their nose on the bottom of my chair!"

MT: "So if you ever meet a billionaire, what would you say?"
Student: "I'd start beggin'!"

These little space cadets sure make my day!