Kids Say the Darndest Things

Here are two of my favorite stories from this week.

The transitions class visited the U of M a couple of weeks ago and has a few more college visits planned. This week their assignment was to create a brochure of their own college and highlight specific things they are looking for in a college or university. Once they were done with their brochures, they presented them to the class and explained why they chose certain features to highlight. A girl presented her college brochure and told us all about the eating options available on campus. I don't think she understands that there are many different places to buy food because she told us all about the cafeteria that was on campus. My favorite part was when she told us in an excited voice, "You can have 2 milks a day!" Apparently someone doesn't think she is getting enough milk to drink in our cafeteria :)

The special education department is in charge of a talent show in December and we had auditions for the show this week. It was an interesting process- we had some really bad auditions and some really good ones. One of our students signed up to audition and specified that he wanted to be last. The auditions went by quickly and I went to get the student early because we were ready for him. I told him we were ready and he got really nervous and told me that he needed more time. I asked him what he was going to do and he told me he hadn't decided yet. After some talking he decided that since he has a guitar at home that he would play the guitar for us. Unfortunately he didn't have a guitar at school so he suggested that we go borrow one from one of the teachers. I went with him to supervise. As we were walking down the hall I asked him what song he was going to play for us and he told me that he was going to make something up. Come to find out he had never touched a guitar before! We got to the teacher's room and the teacher was kind enough to show him a chord to play and then we were off to audition. His audition had to be one of the longest- over 3 minutes of this kid strumming the guitar and us smiling and acting like we enjoyed it. I invite you all to our talent show, it will definitely be unforgettable!