Quiz

Just for fun...let's compare where we all live by answering a brief survey:

1. Price of gas today: $2.39/gallon

2. Temperature today: 39 degrees at 5:18 p.m.

3. Sacrament meeting topics today (this week): Fast & Testimony Meeting - all over the board

4. Biggest news story of the last month: Shooter at Trolley Square.

5. What your kids are doing/did for 100 days of school: I didn't do anything with my 6th graders, does that make me a bad teacher?

6. Restaurants indigenous to your locale: Café Rio, Nielsen's, Pace's, The Mandarin

7. Top 3 attractions near you that people would be interested in visiting: Bountiful Temple, Lagoon? General Conference, to go to Niensen's, to go to Pace's, to go to the Mandarin and of course to visit me!

8. Closest temple: Bountiful, 5 minutes.

9. Distance from your house to where you attend church: abt. 3 blocks.

10. Number of different denominations you pass on the way to church: at least 0.

11. How long have you lived in the house where you live? 2 years.

12. The team everyone roots for in my city is: The Jazz?

13. The number of visitors that could sleep comfortably at your home if they were to visit: At least 6 in real beds with others on floors, in toddler beds an pack 'n plays, on couches or air matresses.

14. Distance between you and the next closest relative: about two feet, Lynette's sitting in the glider and I'm in the eastern most Laz-y-boy in the living room.

Sixth Graders do Learn

So, I'm here and I don't know how often I'll post but hopefully as often as I have something to say. I love reading the stories about my nieces and nephews.

I'm a sixth-grade teacher and this is a cute story that happened the other day. We are in the middle of putting on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and are practicing and memorizing lines every day. One day towards the end of the day there were a few papers and a pen left on the floor and I asked, "Who's papers are those?"

One student answered, "Alas, those are not my papers!" in a plaintive voice.

I laughed and said, "Did you just say, 'Alas, those are not my papers!'?"

He said, "Yes, I did!" then we all laughed and continued cleaning up the classroom to go home. I guess that they really do internalize some of the things they're taught.