The Walker Jones Education Campus

<p>Hey there friends! </p>
<p>Its a new day and as good a time as any to write in the B-Log. Today I thought I would talk about my school. I work as a speech pathologist at Walker Jones Education Campus in DC. Crazy. I work with mostly inner-city African American kids from the projects which makes my life pretty entertaining.</p>
<p>A couple weeks ago one of the girls I work with (a first grader) asked me, "What kind of fur is your weave?" When I told her that I don't have a weave, she informed me that my weave looks like "monkey fur." Hilarious.

I had roots from where I hadn't re-highlighted my hair and a little girl (three years old) asked me why I had black on my hair, pointing to my roots. I told her that my hair was just 2 colors and then she asked me, "Does that mean you killed people?" I told her no, mad her feel it, insisted that my hair was just two colors and sent her off to play blocks while I giggled to myself.

I frequently have little kids, especially the preschoolers, attempt to braid my hair. I'm really tender headed and I will say, those girls are rough. Ouch!

Last really funny story. One of my 4th graders asked me why I had dots on my arm. I asked, "My freckles?" to clarify thats what he was talking about and then explained that melatonin, the stuff in skin that makes his skin black gives me freckles when I go in the sun. He nodded and then I pulled up the sleeve of my t-shirt to show him the more prevelant freckles on my shoulder and he freaked out and yelled, "They go all the way up your arm?!?!?" I told him that I had freckles wherever.I went out in the sun and that I had them even on my stomach. Again, he freaked out and said, "You go outside naked????" I explained that sometimes I went swimming. He calmed down and said, "Oh." And then we got down to the lesson. Hysterical.

Lastly, I'm including some pictures of the capitol as viewable from the crosswalk right next to my school for your viewing pleasure.