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Oh school by Garth and you ask any teacher they've all got a story so many disgusting stories and you know many too many to count but I think that especially Before you have your own kids when you're sort of like a new teacher if you start in your career, it's just just blows your mind how gross children can be look it's a lot of fluids often and love and lack of control and look we do in the early years. We do teach a lot about personal hygiene in health or lessons some people, you know are more on to that than others, but I think that that's a good way to start your year. I can stay Eating some boundaries. Yes, probably learnt that a little bit later than I should have given my experiences and my first few years of teaching preps, but tell a story about one of your stories. Well, when I was thinking about this one that came to mind straight away was when I was teaching grade 1 and I had this little boy come up to me and he said Miss Snape, I don't feel very rare and it just Foam it came out everywhere and I was sitting at the desk and I had my like let my legs crossed and I was wearing ballet flats and it went down my jeans and just pulled in my shoes while I was trying and you don't want to make them feel worse. I was like, it's okay darling. It's okay, so I wasn't like, oh, you know grabbing my shoes off or anything cause I didn't want him to feel like, you know, really gross that it's right kind. So I was Rushing over to get tissues and things and my shoes were like squelchy. Oh Elena ballerina Flats, you know those ones and I'm so I'm just like going along and then after he had gone to Sick Bay and everything, I'd like the tissues. Don't try to clean out like in between my toes. No way. Oh my gosh. That is so bad. I don't know how you avoided having like a sympathy vote. Well, he'd had like a A slushie. Oh, so it was a green at lunch to so was just it wasn't great and it went on my computer to in the keys fruity. Oh, yeah, it went it was it was a it was a shooter like it shot over and directly call that it was very interesting. I had another one as well with I remember I'd only just started teaching and grade 1 again and I'd nailed down to help one of my kids and you know, he went to say something to him and he just turned and looked straight at me and will face to face and he just sneezed bear in my face. I'm like, I wear glasses we could both see it on the glasses. It was there was there was some biggest that was mekas was gonna say chunks, but I thought that was kind of gross. Gross, but I've said it now and so and again I didn't want to make him feel bad. So I didn't take them off straight away and clean them but looking at him I was looking through it to the so however Gothic after that as well, which you just know I was like well what two days and I'll have that one. Yes, Tommy years of teaching you get sick and then you build up a lifelong resistance. I think yes, definitely just on board with any my teacher immunity that you thank goodness. You were wearing those glasses. I don't know. It could have been a lot worse somebody in the eye. He did active II. Well, I was I was have anything against well, and I remember in my very first year of teaching I have some projects and look it got to flu season and I was swallowing through the classroom. I felt like a million dollars. I was wearing my new skirt. It was this back at that back then it was I don't know if you remember this, but they are high low skirt. And some people call them a mullet. Oh like kind of long it. The back but short and very flowy very boho, and I felt this little tug or resistance and I was thinking what's going on here if I caught myself on a chair or something turned around and this little man was using my skirt as a tissue. He was full blowing his nose right down into my skirt. And I sort of kind of like went. Oh, well, I can't sort of snatched away from him mid halfway through I just left and then I thought oh my goodness after we had like a A big chat about this situation and appropriate ways of blowing your nose using the many boxes of tissues spaced around the classroom. I first next brakes sort of like morning tea. I jumped in my car. I raced down to the local shopping center. There was nothing there was like a bakery a coals and activewear shop bought a pair of type. Oh my God, it was so gross. So the biggest lesson I learned that day was always have spare clothes in your car. So I got told that to after the vomit in the shoe. Someone said to me do you have Some clothes in your car and I was like no. No, why would I have but then I figured out why you would this is one great tip. Yeah. So if you're embarking on a new teaching career and you have an encounter one of these disgusting moments yet do put a little baggie of clothes in your car. Yeah, and you know, what if you've been vomited on or someone's used your closes at issue you can wear whatever you want. But yeah, you can have the most comfiest tracksuit pants in your car. Yep. That's you've done your time. What do you get to wear your tracksuit pants and your joggers and no one can say anything and plus? Anyone asks, you've got a really cool story to tell mounted on it. So let's not go Bull story really and I feel like maybe it does have to have no everyone. Yeah, I think it like a rite of passage. It's the beginning of a teaching career. You're not really a teacher until something disgusting has been wiped your spewing. What about the come out of the toilets and they want you to do it via shoelaces and the shoelaces are wet, but it hasn't been raining and you're like, wait a minute. Do you know what I had to take it? So dumb because I went like two to three whole years before I realized why the boys had wet shoe laces Bryce teacher aide who was my prep teacher aide said to me, you know why they're wet. Right and I was like, no. What is it? She's like it's we and I had to have it spelled out to me and then I was like like horrifically much is clear. You would have had on your head. I know and that she has a very absorbent absorbent absorbent Shaker. Yeah. Just hold a lot of weight so bad so bad. Oh, yeah. So on that note I do hope none of you are eating a breakfast today a little word of warning warning you kind of did I asked I was worried for you. Oh, yeah. No, I'm good. I've got four of my own now. Yeah, I'm all over that. But at the time horrific yes mortified, but actually I will say last weekend my one-year-old vomited in the middle of the night and some of it went in my mouth Jill. Oh my gosh, that's how I Got sick too. That's how we all had the stomach bug but because he like just went flying up in the air and I was going on so just keep your mouth closed as well could be another tip another good teaching tip. Yeah, we're all about the Practical tips here. Keep your mouth closed when it's flying towards you. That's a good one, too. I can honestly say that has an in 10 years of parenting that has never happened to me. Thank goodness. Oh, maybe I'm like in the minority. Yeah. Hmm. I'm gonna say that. Well there you go wasn't great. I don't want to do it again. No least it was your babe and not someone elses because there's something really really disturbing about another child. That's not from your family's. Yes in some way. I figure I suppose it made him so great. On that note. Yeah, we really hope nothing happens to you today. Yes, there's no you to vomit free day. Yeah, and if it does it's fine because you'll have a really funny story to tell one day. Yes. This is shared around in the staff room. Bye guys. Bye. Thanks for joining us for another episode of The Buzz bite each data. We look forward to bringing you. Next week's dose of teacher inspo until then. Just remember you've got this.
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