The Most Popular Kid on the Playground
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
siamesaToday at school was Thursdays, and on Thursdays we split into our volunteer SOULL groups and do the various activities such as plant flowers. My group is Book Buddies, and now that we've successfully orchestrated the beginnings of our school literary journal, we are returning to our roots and reading to small children.
And it was so fun!
There was deep disbelief that I was, in fact, a student from the first graders, who insisted I must be a teacher, or at least married. I got to read to them, they enjoyed having me read to them- and then I got invited out to the playground to join them for recess. Or, shall I say, I got dragged by two wildly excited seven year olds out to the playground while the rest of the class hovered around asking questions.
I felt cool. I felt genuinely cool.
I remember when I was in first grade, and the prospect of being a teenager was the most incredibly cool thing in the world. Now, I'm living it. And you know what? Mostly I just want to go back to elementary school.
Today, in a way, I returned in triumph.
And it was so fun!
There was deep disbelief that I was, in fact, a student from the first graders, who insisted I must be a teacher, or at least married. I got to read to them, they enjoyed having me read to them- and then I got invited out to the playground to join them for recess. Or, shall I say, I got dragged by two wildly excited seven year olds out to the playground while the rest of the class hovered around asking questions.
I felt cool. I felt genuinely cool.
I remember when I was in first grade, and the prospect of being a teenager was the most incredibly cool thing in the world. Now, I'm living it. And you know what? Mostly I just want to go back to elementary school.
Today, in a way, I returned in triumph.
