Teachers
Teachers after Hours: Holiday EditionBY JOSHUA GAY ON DECEMBER 20, 2013
Dashing through the halls, in a fresh new pair of J’s, off to class I go, I’ll try to stay awake, Zzz! Zzz! Zzz! It is that time of year again; lights are lit up in neighbors’ lawns and advertisements for Christmas are everywhere. For many teachers and students, the Christmas season is full of traditions like catching Christmas specials on ABC family and spending time with families. During the Christmas season there is a lot going on; Christmas means a lot to people because of family traditions and religion. Like students, teachers do many things over Christmas break.
Business teacher Kelly Perkins sometimes goes on a trip to Charleston, South Carolina. While in Charleston, Perkins spends time with family and enjoys the town. Over the course of the Christmas season, teachers and students go many places. Art teacher Kelly Caracci and math teacher Amanda Davis go out of town for Christmas. Caracci goes to Boone, NC annually to see her parents with her kids and husband over Christmas. They get more snow in Boone than they would in Greenville and are glad because they enjoy having a white Christmas. Davis either goes to New Jersey or her family comes to visit in Greenville. Over Christmas break, Davis does a lot of shopping and baking. She loves to shop for Christmas on Black Friday and loves to bake meringue cookies and no bake cookies. No bake cookies are cookies that do not need to be baked in the oven. Some no bake cookies can even be microwavable or baked on the stovetop. “Meringues and no bakes are tradition,” Davis said. “So I make them every year.” Davis also likes to make chocolate chip pumpkin bread. A lot of people just make regular pumpkin bread but Davis’s aunt has a theory that everything is better with chocolate chips. She decided to just dump chocolate chips into the pumpkin bread and now that is the only way Davis can make it. Perkins and Davis like to have Christmas parties for their students the day before break begins, just so the students can get into the Christmas spirit before they leave. “Sometimes I like to have parties the day before [Christmas break]” Perkins said. “[But] I’m not sure what exactly we’re doing in class the last day before break.” For Davis’s students on the other hand, they are going to be having a math extravaganza. “We did an [extravaganza] for halloween too,” Davis said. “So I let the students bring in their own food and beverages and I supply the movie.” In addition to going to places such as New Jersey or South Carolina, there are plenty of other interesting things that teachers do over Christmas break. For example, history teacher Steve Hill normally spends each Christmas break celebrating he and his wife's anniversary. Hill and his wife, business teacher Marnie Hill, usually go on a nice dinner and sometimes go visit an aunt in Florida. “We usually go more north and south instead of east and west [during our vacation],” Hill said. A lot of Christmases have been special to Hill but this one just might might even mean a little more. Hill’s daughter is leaving for the navy on January 8th after she graduates college. “This will be her last Christmas as a civilian” Hill said. “This will [definitely] be a good one.” Christmas is celebrated all over the world and is a time to cherish and be thankful for things like family, happiness and giving. So to all, happy Kwanzaa, happy Hanukkah and of course Merry Christmas! |
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