Shopping or schnitzel?

During Third grade lunch duty....


"Mrs. Blackwelder, how are you doing today?" I reply with a shocked look on my face because of the impecably polite manner in which this little guy has just acknowledged me while at the same time pronouncing my name correctly. "I'm doing well, thank you for asking. Are you doing anything fun this weekend?" As he casually slides into his place at the lunch table, slinging his Cars lunch bag up from his hip he replies: "Ah... not much, just hanging out with my girlfriend."

When I asked him what he and his girlfriend were going to do, he told me they were going to Dallas with their moms. In my head I'm thinking "Wow, this third grader is taking his girl to Dallas for the weekend(you know those moms are going shopping) while I get stuck going to Choctaw for the German Festival, what is up with that?"

Actually, I'm excited for the weekend I just thought it was funny to compare the weekend "date" of a third grader to that of his teacher. I do have one question though. Don't you think it odd that the German Festival is in Choctaw? I mean wouldn't you think it would make more sense to have I don't know a pow-wow or something in Choctaw? Oh well, we can celebrate both of our heritages this way I guess. In case you were wondering, my people would have been the ones involved in the pow-wow. What? Did the blue eyes and freckles throw you off?