Stuff it!

Just a note to add some fun to your day...

Yesterday during the Spanish 4 class, my hilarious cooperating teacher was teaching a poem. It is a very cool poem from a cuban poet (Nicolas Guien) who blends African and Spanish to create "poesia negriblanca" This poem is actually a chant. A chant to get psyched up to kill a snake. Cool.

So to teach this she brought in a bongo-type drum from the orchestra department and had a student play a beat while she read the chant and the whole class came in for the chorus. Very fun.

But, before she got to this choral reading of the chant, somehow the discussion went to Germans. Yea... afro-cuban spanish snake-killing chants...germans... same thing, right? yea. I think so too.

So off we went with Terese on an adventure into the inner-world of a german and how they deal with their emotions. She adopted an amazingly accurate stereotypical german accent and informed us all how to "Stuff your emotions! Stuff them deep down! Stuff them down down down so you will not feel them ever again! We do not cry, we do not feel, before we can feel we Stuff it!"

It was beyond hilarious. The kids were cracking up, she was cracking herself up, I was crying with laughter and this went on for a solid 5-7 minutes.

Just picture it. You'll laugh.