Kids these days...

So yesterday, like every other Sunday this winter, I went to musical practice for our schools production of The Sound of Music. I am a nun and a guest in the ball scene, therefore I get to waltz for about 30 seconds then leave stage and then watch the children as they say goodnight. Since there are almost no boys in the musical me and my good friend Joelle are unoffically a couple in this scene untill we find some lovely young men (not easy). We are such good friends that there isn't a problem with it and naturally we joke around more than we pay attention. Anyway, yesterday we were walking off stage and one of the little girls who plays a Von Trapp child gives us this look like we were crazy and naturally we were being our usualy joking selves.

This week at our school was regents week and as a senior, I didn't have any regents (!!) and didn't have to go to school, but since Wednesday was a ski club day, I went in arround 2pm. At SE, the middle school is conected to the high school and we share the auditorium, cafe., and band/chorus rooms. As we do every Wednesday me and a bunch of my friends were sitting in the cafe. waiting for the bus for ski club. It was really just a bunch of us talking and someone brought out some nail polish. After a little while a middle school girl passed (their school day was still going on at this point) and asked if this is what high school was like. We sorta just looked at her and were like "what?" and she replied "do you guys just skip class and sit arround and paint your nails?" She didn't understand that we didn't have classes, so we were kind and explained to her about regents week. After she had left we all agreed that we should have told her that it was what we did everyday.

So after these to instances I started thinking about how much todays junior high and elementary kids have changed since I was their age. The world is an ever changing place and it is really interesting to see what the kids these days think of things. It would be lovely to think that in high school you just sit arround and laugh with your friends during free time, but soon they'll learn that it isn't like that.