Yesterday I ventured up to North Jersey to do a Student Information System training for one of my favorite groups of secretaries ever! Everything was going great until we went on a break and I assured everyone that I’d be fine getting back to the 2nd floor lab by myself.
Getting out was cake, I just followed the sunlight. As soon as I stepped back into the school, though, I realized that the bell had rung while I was outside and the halls were now flooded with middle schoolers, many of whom towered over me (what is in the cereal these kids are eating?)
It wasn’t long before I was totally lost. The high-pitched giggles and screams were coming from all sides, and somehow it was exacerbating my disorientation. A girl’s locker explodes and spills crinkled worksheets all over the hallway. Art class self-portraits line the walls, staring at me with strange eyes peering out of disproportionate faces with garishly-hued skin.
Oh man, don’t panic. I’m trying to play it cool so I don’t look like a stranger aimlessly walking the school.
Somewhere at the edges of the frenzy I see a teacher; I make my way over to her and ask meekly how I can get upstairs. Like a GPS angel, she leads the way.
“You are from OnCourse right? You did my training for the Lesson Planner in the fall.”
I responded, “Yes, that was me! How is it going so far?”
She replied, “Well, I’ll be honest, during the training I understood two out of every ten words that you said…”
I cringed on the inside.
“…but I’m like the Queen of OnCourse now! You know, I’m really not a technology person at all, but once I started to use it, it was just so intuitive that I figured it out right away. Now it just works. It really is very user-friendly!”
I beamed on the outside, “Ah, how wonderful! That’s so great to hear!”
The Queen of OnCourse pointed me towards the stairs, and I was off!
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