Chocolate bars, smileys and other stories...

Sounds nice doesn't it?

I spent a delightful lesson today passing on a 'smile' which was on a yellow post-it note. It was there to raise the idea that individuals could contribute a great deal to society including smiling more to people. I told the story of a guy who smiles at the New York taxi driver and by the end of the day New York is all smiles and sunshine. Sounds shmoltzy and cliched and probably isn't true, especially if it was Travis Bickle in the drivers seat.

Driving through the old grey whistle-y rain, the windows steamed up and Dylan blasting out of the car stereo I was happily singing along but then heard a story about a guy who murdered someone else with a sword all over a chocolate bar. What a heart-rendering contrast to the Year 7 lesson a few hours earlier about the contagious smile.

Well, that's about that for now. I'll let you draw your own conclusions on the contrast between school and real life. And they get pissed off when you ask them to do their tie up. God knows what would happen if they were eating a snickers in class...