Food

The entire eighth grade had a field trip today to see a play about five short stories they read in English class (The Necklace, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Monkey's Paw) and I went with them. It was quite an adventure keeping track of everyone and attempting to explain the logic behind the fact that they can't sit with their friends. The plays were kind of interesting, but what I got most out of the experience was the whole excitement from a field trip scenario. Since we returned too late to eat lunch in the cafeteria, they ate in their first period teachers' rooms. Man, these kids eat JUNK.

And I've noticed this multiple times, not just today. Yesterday, one kid pulled out Apple Jacks that had fallen out of their baggie into his bookbag; earlier, one student asked if he could eat his breakfast in class and pulled out a bag of pretzels then said he had chips and cookies for lunch, and today this same kid's lunch was an instant cup of Ramen. The culture certainly encourages this junk, as well. A few days ago the lunch lady walked around after breakfast handing out the extra of what were labeled "breakfast muffins." I took one because I was curious but took one bite because it was a cookie. Literally a cookie. For breakfast. I looked at the label and there was something like 250 calories too. Ridiculous. No wonder there is an obesity problem in this country.