Diet Coke, Mentos, and misunderstandings...

Overheard, one tenth grade girl to another:
"I'm just a dumb blonde trapped in a mixed girl's body."
:)

So I wore my glasses to school yesterday for the first time in awhile, which meant that I got a lot of comments about my "new" (5 year old?) glasses. This one was from one of the eighth grade boys,
"Ms Book, can I ask you a favor?"
"Sure"
"Can you take your glasses off? They make you look old."

two thoughts:
a) Contrary to popular belief, I am not here for your viewing pleasure.
b) This means I looked all of what, 25? Considering that I usually look about 19...


We're starting a unit on experimental design in chemistry, which means that we've been doing some Diet Coke and Mentos experiments. This, of course, draws quite a bit of interest, so I like to let the faculty know when it's happening so that they can watch. Thus, I sent out another email today (the first was last week, today we did it in another class). Today's email dialogue went something like this:

Me:

More Diet Coke and Mentos today…probably halfway through 5^th period J

Kammy (in the teacher's lounge, to me, after receiving the email I sent):
"What is this Diet Coke and Mentos thing? I don't like Diet Coke or Mentos."

Me:
"Are you serious???? You don't know???"

next email:
"clarification"

Because Kammy told me she didn’t care b/c she doesn’t like Diet Coke or Mentos…

I meant we are exploding things in the parking lot if you want to watch.

A few minutes later Rev. Tom walked into the teacher's lounge.

"I'm just wondering...What is a 'Mentos'?"

Next email:
Well gee, I didn’t think this was mysterious, but when Tom had to ask “What is a Mentos?” I thought maybe I should send the link as well…

See the video of what happens when you put Mentos in Diet Coke here:

http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html

+ =

I received a response almost immediately from the "Academic Team Leader"/Math teacher:

I don't mean to bother you, but what is diet coke?

Heheheh...it was a fun day.