I had a passing memory yesterday and today, because it’s a better weather, I actually teased it out. The memory I have is from when I was teaching English. I was cleaning out my emails yesterday and I saw this one:
I have no idea why I am getting these emails in my ‘promotions’ mailbox, but seeing this made me think of a student that I had and her name escapes me. I had her sister as well.
Seeing that ‘zigzag part’ reminded me of talking to you student about that. When I taught English, I would periodically wheel my wheelchair right up to the student tables to do something with paperwork. One of my students would always come to school with a ‘zigzag part’ that I thought looked so cool!
This memory is vague, but I remember talking to her about that and the fact that it looks so cool and I asked her how she did it. She was unfazed and looked at me and just said, “Just use a pencil, Miss.” Iooked at her questioningly and kind of furrowed my brows a bit.
She was doing work and she held up her pencil and kind of beckoned me to lean forward. My hair was clean, so I hesitantly bent my head down and forward. She took her pencil, made a zigzag with her pencil on my scalp, and then separated my hair.
I remember smiling and and thanking her and telling her that I felt cool. I don’t know how long it lasted. But I saw that email and I thought about that silliness in my classroom from so many years ago. It had to be probably 2007 or 2008?