Memory Lane

Today at work I got a chance to go with one of my co-workers to a gradeschool classroom where he talked about water safety to the students. This particular grade school was one of the ones that I went to for 5th and 6th grade. I had also been an aide there during my senior year of highschool.

It's been over 20 years since I've been there. It was so surreal walking in the door. Reporting to the office, walking down the hall. Being careful not to step on the 'snotboxes'. These were the tiles that were different colored. The things children come up with.

We walked down the hall, walking by all the little classrooms. Admiring the artwork on the walls. We continued down until we made our way to the library to get set up. The room seemed so small but just how I remembered it. Of course the card catalogs were gone and there were computers now set up in the back of the room but all still very familiar.

I was sorry I forgot the camera to take pictures of the water safety presentation and also to take some pics of memory lane.

In a conversation with my Boss the other day he was talking about how now at schools chalkboards are replaced with dry erase boards and the old style of wall crank pencil sharpners have been replaced with electric ones. I had no idea, since I haven't been inside a school for a very long time.

As I stood there in the library looking around I spied one of those old crank pencil sharpners with a garbage can placed underneath to catch any shavings that might sneak out. It made me chuckle to still see some things haven't changed with the times in this very small community. Who needs all the fancy stuff that the poshier schools have. These work just fine.