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November 30, 2006
Two (Specific) Reasons I Love My Friend Maaike
Because there are the obvious reasons:
Talent
Intelligence
Kindness
Laughter
Creativity
And then there are the two things she did today. For background, you should know that she teaches the same class I do, in the same room, right after my last class of the day. Also, that we are into the last round of speeches for the semester.
So.
Specific Reason for Loving Maaike #1
Anyone who teaches Comm 101 at the university is doing speeches right now. And anyone who takes or teaches Comm 101 knows that if you want to enter a classroom during speech days, you wait until you hear the applause and enter between speakers.
After the third speaker in my last class, the door to my classroom swings open and in walks Maaike with a scythe. A real, honest-to-god 5-foot scythe. Like Death carries. And she says, "Sally! Your Time Is Over!"
I, being the ever-responsible instructor, assume we've somehow run over time. Ilook at the list of speakers still to go, look at the clock, realize we're only halfway through and say, "No! We're only halfway done!"
And she responds, "No, Sally. Just you."
Since my students already think I'm a world-class nutcase, it was simply confirmation.
Specific Reason for Loving Maaike #2
Among the various things that made me crazy in my class today were three separate cell phones ringing during speeches a total of five times. Even though shut off the damn phones is a basic rule in my class on speech days. All three of them rang during one student's speech. I was appalled. They should know better than that by now.
After my class has finished, my students are packing up and going and her students are shuffling in, I say to Maaike, "One of my students had three cell phones go off during his speech today!"
And she says,genuinely perplexed, "Why did he have three cell phones?"
How can you not adore someone who makes you laugh until you fall over not once but twice in less than an hour?
Posted by sally at November 30, 2006 08:58 PM
Comments
Sally...you're the best!!
Posted by: Maaike at December 2, 2006 02:49 PM
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