APRIL FOOOOOOLS!

I love April 1st! Since I was a child my family has celebrated this great day with jokes and pranks. It never fails, I fall for it every time! Today I was on top of my game. I woke up and said, "It's April Fools Day...don't fall for anything." So when Josh called and had some lame joke about one of my friends showing up at his house and having to take him out for breakfast, I was on it. However, I never saw this one coming:

The radio station in town (KRQ) generally has something great planned for April 1st. I had forgotten about that because I have been gone for so long. I turned on my car and pulled out of the garage. As I drove out of the ally, I heard a meowing noise. I had my window down so I figured it was the neighbors cat saying goodbye to me. Did I mention that live next to the cat lady? I continued down the street and heard it again. I looked in the back of my car and there was clearly nothing. I FEAR running over an animal because I love them so much and just know how devastated I would be to take a life. So, when nothing was in the back of my car, I kept driving. MEOW! There it was again! But I was turning my AC on! *yes, we need AC!
So I turned it up higher and there it was again! I turned off the radio and the AC to listen and see if it came back! I turned the air on wasn't sure if I heard it. I turned the radio back on, but very softly and sure enough! AGAIN! I pulled over, search the back of my car, popped the hood and took a look around. Mind you, I don't even know where the "AC" would be in my car but I figured I would see fur or something. Nothing. As I gazed into the engine of my car, it hit me- APRIL FOOLS. Ugh. I feel for it again! Stop that right meow!

So decided when I got to school this morning that I just had to do something for my students. While they were in PE today I printed off the first few pages of the Physics section of the GRE. I put my classes heading on it and photocopied 18 copies. When they came back I told them that we were going to take our science test (which is scheduled for Thursday...). Some of my students flipped on me arguing that they thought it was on Thursday! After demanding that they clear their desks and pull out a pen I placed their "test" in front of them. They labeled their papers and began reading. Some of them vocalized the fact that they had never seen anything like that before in their lives, but I had a few who even went as far to remind them that we had studied for it last week in class (which we did...just for a different test!). Some of them looked like they wanted to tackle me and some looked like they were about to cry. One of my very bright boys got up and walked over to me, placed his hands on my shoulders and said, "Miss P, I've never seen anything like this in my life. I can't even read all the words. This can't be real." I held to it. I had a student in on it who stood up and told the class to stop crying about it and try it because it wasn't that hard...I went with it for about 5 minutes before I yelled out "April FOOOOOLS!" They almost died. I am pretty satisfied with my joke...next year I will think of something even better!

I love teaching.