What my mother doesn't know

This is a page from the book What my mother doesn't know (a story of love and confusion) by Sonya Sones. It's an awesome book and very unusual as each page is written kind of differently like a poem or something. It's very cool.

"Shadow Play

We've turned off all the lights
in the living room
to make hand shadows.

We've got this
big flashlight
aimed at the wall.

I make the silhouette of my hand
into a duck.
Robin makes his into a rabbit.

Now my duck kisses his rabbit
And--POOF!--it turns into
a turkey.

And for some reason
this strikes us as hysterically funny.

But you probably had to be there"

20/03/07

*it starts to snow - as seen out our maths class window*
"It's snowing!" - Matt
*Sedgy starts singing*
"I'm dreaming of a white birthday... just like the ones I used to know?" - Sedgie

Hello

19/03/07

"I like these formulas best of all" - Mills
Ah, maths teachers

"Move, you bloody peroxide princess" - Ellis , to Scott
Scott had been holding the door shut with his foot - or attempting to anyway.

"Are you sure you're not a lesbian?" - Dan
"I'm not a lesbian" - Nat
"How about now?" - Dan

Mmm.. abuse

13/03/07
"Yes, it would by child cruelty but it would be worth it" - Kate
Ahh, even the teachers are violent :P

"If I was going to go to prison I might as well go the whole way and actually kill someone!" - Kate
Isn't this inspirational and moral 'advice' to pass on to your students! lol

*Rian holds up a mini whiteboard with the words "I'm with stupid" and a line (which Jacqueline points out is actually pointing towards him - so he readjusts it to point to Beki - who points it back at him)*
"'I'm with'? Should that be 'I am'? ... sorry, couldn't help it" - Greg
"Don't worry, I've got plenty on you mate" - Rian

"I miss people sometimes but my aim is improving"

12/03/07
"Can you tell me what to put there, Dopey?" - Mills
"Umm... some numbers" - Sedgie, aka Dopey
Ahh maths... we are such an intelligent lot :P

"Please, just give me a sine!" - Greg in Maths
NB: May have been inspired by a comment from another class member...

07/03/07
"Master files are normally sequential, unless they are otherwise" - Jayne

"Education is a series of lies to children" - Carol
She thinks that she got this quote from somewhere but doesn't remember where.

This week sometime?

Note: If anyone happens to have a spare small notebook and wants me to continue taking more quotes then you can donate one as I generally just try to remember them and then forget them, lol.

02/03/07 (I think)
"I don't actually remember ever having a time in my life when I thought my penis had been chopped off" - Rai
Talking about Freud's theories of girls having 'penis envy' and fear of having been castrated... Yeah, psychology is weird.

"Are you doing a rabbit impression?" - Natalie to Stewart in History
I don't actually recall what he was really doing...

"It wouldn't be legal to kill Viraaj .. Enjoyable as that would be" - Kate
Explaining what 'legal feasibility' meant.

Earlier quotes I hadn't put in yet:

23/02/07
"The college paints are crap" - Aimee
"Did you just say you're taking crack?" - Dan

"Jodie, what are you doing?" - Dan
"I'm feeding the grass" - Jodie

A quote I was told about on 23/02/07 but probably happened on a previous date:

*Jodie asks for flirting tips*
"Just think of him as a woman" - Tanysha
"Right, so Jodie's a lesbian" - Dan
...
"You should rub him, like in a joking way" - Dan
"That's a rubbish idea" - Jodie
"It's better than being a lesbian!" - Dan

Ages ago..

19/01/07
*Waiting on the street corner for Alice*
"Natasha, what are you doing?" - Joe
"Waiting for customers" - Tash
Lol, her mum told her she looked like a hooker that morning...