When I was younger...
I remember it was the summer after 6th grade, and I was at school because of academic decathlon or something like that.
Sitting at my desk here at one of my schools, I just had a memory about one of the first tasks that they had us do during that 6th grade summer. Imagine a young and eager-to-please me, excited to be solving puzzles and doing brain exercises...
By the way, I have no idea what the point of this task was with regards to academic decathlon.
There was a worksheet, and the moderator was actually one of my elementary school's alums that couldn't have been more than 3 years older than me, but boy did I think he was a cutie back then...anyway cute older boy tells us that the point of the worksheet is to finish it as quickly as possible. He tells us to start and it's this insane list of like 50 things that have us running around the whole school doing ridiculous things like: 1. Go ask for a drink of water; 2. Write your name on the blackboard; 3. Leave the classroom and come back inside walking backwards.
All the way to number 50.
And when you got to 50, it said something like:
50. Congratulations on reading the directions before starting. Skip #1-49, turn your paper over and wait for further instructions.
Which of course prompts one to go back to the instructions and see...
"Directions: Read all of the steps before beginning."
Now this is the sort of thing that now I think would be really cool as an icebreaker for a meeting or something. But at the time I just felt really really silly. And for a slightly awkward 12 year old girl trying to be cool for the 16 year old cutie, not so good hahaha.
I don't really know why I thought of this just now, but I think it might be something like...a lot of my new teachery friends and I (I'm including them/you so that I don't feel so lost alone), a lot of my new teachery friends and I are running around doing things, getting ready, trying to please, doing what we think needs to be done...but almost like directionless chickens waiting for that #50 to laugh at us an say, "HAHA! You did all this and now that you're actually in the classroom now you realize steps #1-49 were just there to make you crazy!! Now you can actually do what you need to do LOL."
Haha I totally didn't mean for that analogy to come about, I really was just remembering the cute boy giving us the worksheet and imagining if something like that activity could be useful for either a lesson or planning a meeting in the future...but yeah I can't help but feel like I'm on step #40 and snuck a peek down to #50 and realized that I've been running around crazy for no reason...so what to do now? Still at least 2 weeks of waiting...
Sitting at my desk here at one of my schools, I just had a memory about one of the first tasks that they had us do during that 6th grade summer. Imagine a young and eager-to-please me, excited to be solving puzzles and doing brain exercises...
By the way, I have no idea what the point of this task was with regards to academic decathlon.
There was a worksheet, and the moderator was actually one of my elementary school's alums that couldn't have been more than 3 years older than me, but boy did I think he was a cutie back then...anyway cute older boy tells us that the point of the worksheet is to finish it as quickly as possible. He tells us to start and it's this insane list of like 50 things that have us running around the whole school doing ridiculous things like: 1. Go ask for a drink of water; 2. Write your name on the blackboard; 3. Leave the classroom and come back inside walking backwards.
All the way to number 50.
And when you got to 50, it said something like:
50. Congratulations on reading the directions before starting. Skip #1-49, turn your paper over and wait for further instructions.
Which of course prompts one to go back to the instructions and see...
"Directions: Read all of the steps before beginning."
Now this is the sort of thing that now I think would be really cool as an icebreaker for a meeting or something. But at the time I just felt really really silly. And for a slightly awkward 12 year old girl trying to be cool for the 16 year old cutie, not so good hahaha.
I don't really know why I thought of this just now, but I think it might be something like...a lot of my new teachery friends and I (I'm including them/you so that I don't feel so lost alone), a lot of my new teachery friends and I are running around doing things, getting ready, trying to please, doing what we think needs to be done...but almost like directionless chickens waiting for that #50 to laugh at us an say, "HAHA! You did all this and now that you're actually in the classroom now you realize steps #1-49 were just there to make you crazy!! Now you can actually do what you need to do LOL."
Haha I totally didn't mean for that analogy to come about, I really was just remembering the cute boy giving us the worksheet and imagining if something like that activity could be useful for either a lesson or planning a meeting in the future...but yeah I can't help but feel like I'm on step #40 and snuck a peek down to #50 and realized that I've been running around crazy for no reason...so what to do now? Still at least 2 weeks of waiting...
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aww, but i hope things settle down soon!