Best Day

I walk through that familiar threshold of the AP English room with Haley and Tina right behind, as we realize that something has changed. This day felt different. Finally, our turn to teach a poem exactly the way we wanted to while everyone else (including Ms. Serensky) had to play along. So naturally, we chose to open our day with some game-show challenges from Haley’s “minute to win it” book that we spent forever looking at the night before. Maybe it was the hours of sitting in Haley’s basement trying the challenges, gathering supplies, and making the lesson plan that made us all so excited…or maybe it was just the pure anticipation of waiting to see our classmates run to sort skittles, eat oreos without their hands, pick up bags with their mouths, and carry cotton balls with their noses. As the games start, everyone begins rushing around “dreadfully tired and strained and frantic” as the challenges insight a hilarious panic in everyone in the class (Kesey 218). Our hard work already starts to pay off as laughing fills the entire room and we then move on to the mustache discussion. As we pass out paper mustaches to the class and watch everyone take them to their face, we calmly explain how everyone must have a normal discussion and attempt to ignore this distraction. We take our seats and I glance around the room and can not hold back a smile as everyone’s uniform facial hair looks beyond ridiculous. I even think that a normal discussion may be “a complete impossibility”(Wilde 6). The discussion lags at first as everyone adjusts to their new image, but soon it starts to roll and the time flies by.  The bell rings and I suddenly feel sad, realizing that our power over the lesson for an AP English class had vanished. But, we can not deny that “Everything ends” and leave the class after a great day (Currie 292).