music: Bill Evans- The Secret Sessions d.7
Teachers have to dip into their own pockets a great deal in order to stock their classrooms. This generally takes the form of pens, pencils, markers, folders, and the like, but science teachers have a quirky, different set of needs altogether. I’ve found myself at the grocery and hardware stores with some pretty strange shopping lists this past year. I once bought four gallons of vinegar, one gallon of bleach, and one gallon of ammonia. The checkout girl thought I was going to build a bomb or something. I inevitably bring the stuff home and do some prep at the 1-2. My roommates have been more than cool about all the wierdness a high school science class requires. Besides the infamous dissection stir-fry, my roommates have suffered through a long weekend with 36 raw eggs soaking in vinegar in the back stairwell, a night or two of earthworms in the refrigerator, and now an onslaught of canned goods. The experiment du jour is to build a calorimeter out of a tin can, so during my trip to the grocery store I made a point to pick up 25 different canned goods. Not for the food, but for the can. They did come with food inside, so we now have our fridge stocked with collard greens, stewed and diced tomatoes, creamed corn, fruit cocktail, and four different kinds of beans. I bought generic spaghetti-o’s as well but after heating them up and literally gagging on the smell they went out with the Sunday night trash. I spent a good hour tonight removing food from the cans, putting them in tupperware, cleaning and drying the cans, and cleaning up the awful mess it made. But now Boston’s youth have their cans, the fiber content is high here at the 1-2, and we have the Boston Public School system to thank.
Back to the business of girding myself for the school week to come.
Posted by davidtaus at March 13, 2005 11:57 PM