Back to school again. These days everything seems to be about school (it's very busy in the last couple weeks of school). Today was our Intermediate Fun Day. We took 160 kids to a park on the lake not too far from the school. The biggest fun for the kids on these field trip days is the massive water fight we have every year. It's huge. It's anticipated for the entire school year and talked about for the entire next year.
Contrary to all the kids, I am not a huge water fight fan. The lake is freezing cold, not all that clean and really, really cold! But I know how important it is to the kids that their teacher gets involved in the "fun" so I came equipped with my ice cream bucket. (FYI - an ice cream bucket can get everyone in the vicinity much wetter than any water gun on the market). It didn't take long for all the kids to gang up on the only two teachers brave enough to get in the water. Therefore, it didn't take long for me to be soaked to the skin. After that point, there wasn't much point in fighting when a few of my kids attempted to dunk me. I put up the obligatory fight but they got me under.
My point is, I joined the water fight under obligation and with a little grumbling, but at the end of it all, I probably had more fun than the party-poopers who sat it out. Sometimes you have to take a leap and do something you don't really feel like doing. Who knows - you may end up enjoying it a whole lot! A.
