Did You Lose Your Group?

Where to begin describing today? Today some of my freshmen students participated in Youth Summit. It's a program that brings high school students from around the state to debate current issues and develop their own policy on that topic. The whole thing took place at the Brown Palace...very fancy!

Some important information:

-I have a history of being bad with directions.

-My GPS is named Sheila. We fight a lot. Sometimes I yell at her or hit her. And when I'm really mad at her, I make her recalculate on purpose.

When the day started, I was nervous. I had to drive some students and I wasn't sure if we were all ready to experience my direction-challenged-Sheila fighting-self.

And so the adventure began. My cooperating teacher, we'll call CT (not to be confused with camel toe), also drove some students. CT decided to follow me. Talk about pressure! The beginning of the drive was smooth. Then we had to exit and I put a student in charge of being the navigator/reading the directions.

Me: "Where are we supposed to exit?"

Student: staring at the directions, "I don't even know what street we're on right now."

We would have gotten there problem free, but the directions I printed were to the Brown Palace, not to the designated parking areas. We only had to take one small detour...what a success! I didn't even fight with or yell at Sheila.

Once we got there, my students begged me to sign-in as 'Cha Chi'. I didn't cave on that one. But they did call me that throughout the day and I got some weird looks.

Lady: "Do you need help finding your table?"

Me: "Oh no, I'm ok thanks."

Lady: "Well what red number do you have on your name tag?"
Me: "I don't have one."

Lady: "Are you supposed to be a group facilitator?"

Me: "No, I'm a chaperone."

Lady: "I think you mean facilitator."

Me: "Actually I'm a student teacher."

Lady: "Ohhh."

Later in the day...

Another lady: "Did you lose your group?"

During the break...

Student: "One girl in my group is driving me crazy! All she wants to do is talk about feelings. I hate talking about feelings!"

Me: "And how does that make you feel?"

My students did great today! I'm so proud of them!