Work and the pope and the apocalypse

I'm a teacher so today was my first day back at work after spring break. One of my coworkers got promoted and it totally screws up the whole dynamic. He had been quietly doing a lot and now me and my other coworkers are like scrambling to pick up the slack. Its interesting because I essentially have the oportunity to make a lot of descisions about the way our program runs. The open endedness of it feels really good though it'll be tough to move away from the way we had been doing things.

He like knew the most about coding in our group and so he and I together would teach music production through this weird program and it just wasn't setup for audio at all. I'm thinking of convincing my boss to switch to a unit on real audio production. Though my students would need headphones. Today we ended up just playing a little percussion song that they wrote together, one of the younger kids came up to us and said that her fish abraham lincoln (the fish was named abraham lincoln) had died and that we would be having a funeral for him. So I convinced the older kids to play a funeral march for Abe Lincoln and they did very well.

One of them told me that the pope died and I said "yeah his last words were happy easter to everyone" and it reminded me of the things I had heard on the news when I was their age. They have the same sense that the news is important or interesting but like I did back then they are only repeating things other people have said to them.

My parents lived through the 2008 housing crisis but I can only tell you that I moved a few times and played the nintendo wii. 

Its interesting the way these moments in history affect us even when we don't know what they are.