16 November 2010

Unnecessary Panic

I seriously feel like I might drop from a heart attack. My headache which I just got rid of is now raging out of control. Laptops... I think I just might hate them. Maybe it's students lack of brain power to put things where they belong. I don't know if you've ever used a laptop cart before, but they're pretty basic. I've used them at lots of schools. There are several slots one for each computer with a charger in the slot as well. The spots are number along with the individual computers. It's really easy, when you're done you just slide the laptop into the spot you got it out of and plug the cord in. There's no remembering where you got it from and no question as to where it goes. Could my class handle this? No they couldn't. They double stacked two computers causing me to have heart failure when I looked at the cart and saw that there were two spots that were empty. I seriously freaked out. Knowing that I wasn't really supposed to be using the laptop cart to begin with and now I've lost two of them. I immediately took note of which one the one student left in my room had, asked her to stay put while I went next door and asked the teacher to call security. THEY SENT ME FOUR PEOPLE!!! FOUR!!! After the second one arrived we opened the cart back up and I started going through each spot. This is when I discovered that the two that were missing we in spots that already had computers! I couldn't believe it. I reacted without thinking. I panicked.

I guess the upside to this is that there were no computers missing, but I didn't discover this until I'd already made a fool of myself. Now I'm sitting here in my last class and all I want to do is curl up and go to sleep.

P.S. The Haitian girls in my class are my favorite! They're SO smart and actually respond about what they're thinking when they ask for help!

1 comment:

Jessica said...

Got to love a panic/clouded moment. We all have them! :)