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A party for Christian Utpatel

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We met Christian in 1990. He drove the bus for us on choir tour in Germany. After that he helped put together some of the next few Germany tours. He was in the States on a business trip and spent the day with Dad Martens. Dad threw a party for him and a few of his closest friends from 20 some odd years ago came to say, “Hi.”

It was great seeing him again and great to see everyone else as well. We need more excuses to get together, so we’ll have to invite Christian back again. See how many people you can name.

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Fortnight update

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Okay. So far, Taco Fortnight has been a rousing success.  Lauren might not agree with that. I don’t know. But she’s been a good sport about it anyway. I’ll say this for it, it’s pretty easy to get tacos ready to eat.  We’ve been branching out a little bit lately, and it might be more accurate to call it, “Anything remotely related to tacos fortnight.”

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The point is, I’m eating “tacos”.

 

More head shots

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My 8th graders really liked the Mona Lisa in the classroom. Well, actually they didn’t like it at first. They thought it was creepy. But eventually they came around and said that I should do the same thing in other classrooms. They got into it while I was cutting out heads during math class and started finding other heads for me to do.

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I think I got 4 classrooms done in the first round, but then it occurred to me that the hardest part for me (the cutting) would be the easiest part for Lauren. After all, she actually teaches cutting. I think we did 7 or 8 more classrooms a couple of days later, and now we’re ready to do 8 more.  I think that leaves just a couple.

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I was trying to be all sneaky about it (but without having to come in really early or stay really late). I’ve been found out by 2 teachers. They’ve been sworn to secrecy.

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I really wasn’t expecting Wally to be all into it.

A little bit of Mona

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Our previous previous art teacher at Lincoln Lutheran, Donna Willet, always had a little cut out of the Mona Lisa peeking over one of the bulletin boards in the art room. Donna’s retired from teaching about four years ago and the cut out came down. I got tired of not seeing it and finally got around to doing something about it.

There are lots of famous paintings and lots of classrooms at school. I’m thinking about art bombing the place. Anyone have suggestions?

Tea for two (erm, one)

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Lauren said, and I quote, ” You have to write the post tomorrow. No tag backs.”

Late last week, one of our sixth grade teachers –sixth graders are our youngest students– was anxiously hanging out by that new fangled coffee maker that you put one tiny cup of coffee in, and out comes a full sized cup of coffee. You know what I’m talking about?

Well, it was taking much longer than she had anticipated, and she was worried about getting out to her room on time. I didn’t have a class 1st period, so I said that she should just go out to her classroom, and I’d bring her coffee out to her.

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Everything was going along smoothly, until I turned the cup of (and at this point I realized that it might not, in fact, be coffee) around and noticed the logo on the cup itself.

This was a real problem. I couldn’t just be seen walking this cup of what I was gradually coming to realize was tea around the school. People would talk. Long standing agreements and treaties would be compromised.

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Frankly, I was a little bit surprised. I thought I knew on which side of the fence everyone around me stood on this issue. But this sixth grade teacher –I’m withholding her name, not to protect her innocence, but because I have blotted it from my mind– really threw me for a loop.

But I had said that I would deliver her pale, hot drink, and deliver it I would. It didn’t take very long to make the switch. All it took was a color printer and a little bit of packing tape. Well, there might have been a little more packing tape involved than was strictly necessary.

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I wanted to include a photo of her with the mug, but she didn’t think that was a good idea.