Jake, this big, tough-lookin’ Maori with a quick smile, started yelling at the kids through a mega-phone. “Hey, get those lines strait. Gabe, your foot’s out of line! Alright, now you have to smile nicely. They can see that you’re not smiling from up their. Alex, smile properly!” Then another teacher, who was in charge of the project, got hold of the megaphone and told the kids that they had to take a deep breath on the count of three because they wanted to do the letters in bold. “One, Two, Three…” and you could hear a collective inhale from the rugby pitch. The teachers were all losing it on the other side of the field and the kids were quite confused. Hilarious!
I love the relationships that the teachers have with their students and with each other at ANI. Yesterday, we were taking the whole-school photo for the school video and yearbook. The students were arranged on the Rugby field in the form of the letters “ANI” and the photographer stood on nearby Mt. Eden to take the picture. He was very clever and sneaky. To avoid having kids goofing off and jumping out of line on the old “1, 2, 3”, he simply took pictures as soon as the kids were all in position, then photo-shopped out the teacher standing at the front directing. Which meant that the kids were all standing in line politely waiting to have their picture taken, not knowing it was already done. The perfect chance to mess with them!
Jake, this big, tough-lookin’ Maori with a quick smile, started yelling at the kids through a mega-phone. “Hey, get those lines strait. Gabe, your foot’s out of line! Alright, now you have to smile nicely. They can see that you’re not smiling from up their. Alex, smile properly!” Then another teacher, who was in charge of the project, got hold of the megaphone and told the kids that they had to take a deep breath on the count of three because they wanted to do the letters in bold. “One, Two, Three…” and you could hear a collective inhale from the rugby pitch. The teachers were all losing it on the other side of the field and the kids were quite confused. Hilarious!
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Thomas
11/23/2014 02:02:25 am
"Take a deep breath" so as to shoot it in "bold"----hysterical!!!!
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