Never a dull moment...

Yesterday, as some of you may know, was Mardi Gras. Because of the France/Catholic connection of the holiday we study the history of the holiday and what it all means in French class, and then we always eat King's Cake. The students always get super excited when they find the plastic baby Jesus in the cake. Seriously, you would think they had just won the lottery! This year, a certain student of mine from last year (French 1) was celebrating Mardi Gras in the other French classroom across the hall from mine. He got the baby Jesus this year, and wanted to run across the hall to tell me the crazy exciting news, and his teacher allowed him to leave the class. The problem was that he weighs about 250 pounds (he's a starting linemen), and he ran over to my room with a little bit too much enthusiasm:

 

The glass window in my classroom door shattered! I was in shock, and as you can tell from the picture, he was in shock as well. We were both able to laugh about it together later, but in that first 15 seconds, there was sheer terror on his face (for fear of getting in trouble), and on mine (18 students in the classroom and there is glass everywhere!). It was a moment that I will truly never forget.

The maintenance crew came to clean up the glass yesterday, but there is still a gaping hole in my door. For those of you who have worked with high school students, you can imagine the distraction that is! Every time someone walks by they have to make a silly comment or stick their hand through the "invisible" glass. I'll be glad when it's fixed. Ironically, finding the baby in the cake means good luck for a year. After he broke the door my class proceeded to have a discussion about chance vs. the sovereignty of God. Gotta snag every possible teaching moment! Happy belated Mardi Gras everyone!!!