The "Breathing" Exercise

i really enjoy teaching boys...always have. it's such a different world...so...much...fun!

well, i have a whole new batch of adventurous junior high students this year and the boys in this bunch are a kick in the pants.

i had a study hall with them on friday last week and after a while i heard this weird breathing. various lengths of exhales and inhales...to be honest, it was a little disturbing. hahahaha! so i looked back to this area where a couple of boys were sitting on the floor..also the general direction of the breathing. and i said, "ummm, guys...whatcha doing back there?" and they replied..."oh, we're communicating in morse code with our breath."...long, long, short, etc. "alllllrighty then"...and then i laughed myself silly.

boys!

the funny thing is...when i joked with them about it again today, they said to me, "don't you remember from a long time ago?" i had no idea what they were talking about. so the two of them told me about a time back when they were in 4th grade when i had to come in and sub for their teacher. and i said to them (and i guess i can see myself saying something like this...), "ok, guys, it needs to be quiet. so there's no talking...not even any breathing in morse code." they told me that they had been waiting since then to have me as a teacher to "play that trick on me".

hahahahahahaha!

boys!

i, of course, have no memory of that...due to old age and the chemical side effects of addictive levels of nutrasweet in my system. but it is hilarious the things we remember...and commit to remember...and act on.

wow!