September 28, 2007
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Truthful
We have a character quality every week at school. This week is Truthfulness. I was rather excited to monopolize on this. I don’t know when it started, but somehow i became the handwashing monitor. i go around before meals asking if everyone washed their hands. hey-somebody’s gotta do it. Then we had problems using soap. So to prove they’d washed their hands, they would put their still wet hands up to my nose, often at random periods throughout the day, waiting for my praise of “good! you washed your hands!” This made me laugh, but i didn’t mind that much. We have nice soap here.
Then i became the toothbrushing monitor. with some grumbling. but even this was tolerable until they decided i needed to check their breath, and would randomly come up and breathe on me. i drew the line when Guilheme let out a big burp an inch from my face. So now when they inhale and get ready to “show me” they brushed their teeth, i back away quickly and say “Are you showing the character quality for this week?” yep, pretty corny, but very successful.
