The Picture

I should begin by telling you I have a very dramatic class this year. They tend to exaggerate pretty much everything, and for some reason they have taken a fascination to belly dancing. Every day they come in talking about how so and so was belly dancing waiting for the bus. Weird, I know. Monday, my principal and an educational book publisher came in to show them how to publish their own books. We hooked my laptop into the projector, and I navigated through the site so the kids could see where to go on their laptops. The guy stood by the screen pointing out the features. The kids were quite engaged and things were going well. However, the next step was adding pictures. He asked if I had any on my laptop, and I told him I had some great ones of the class that we could show how to upload. Unfortunately, when the picture gallery opened, it opened to the last picture used, which was that beauty in my last post with the head wizard. I momentarily forgot how HUGE pictures look on the projector until I heard, "Oh my gosh, it is a picture of Miss R belly dancing." Which set off a huge explosion of giggling and yelling. The man by the projector not knowing my imaginative students jumped in front of the projector waving his arms trying to block the image. In the confusion and my mortification, I kept yelling, "I am not belly dancing, it's just a picture with . . . . .the head wizard. This proclamation did not help things, the kids could not contain their giggles, and the guy could not contain waving his arms. And so, with a bright red face I shut down the program as fast as I could. That's when I made the executive decision to find a picture of a dog on the Internet instead. Later, I explained to the guy that it was just a picture of me and this thing called the head wizard, but I'm not sure that made things less awkward. And although I gave my kids a good scolding about making up stories about belly dancing pictures, they continue to beg to see the belly dancing photo. (The guy's head and arms were in the way, they told me.) I promised that one day if they are really good, I will show them the head wizard photo. I just hope they don't go home and tell their parents they saw my belly dancing photo.