Miss Caroline?s First Day Essay -- essays research papers

Miss Carolines First DayIt was the first day of school for many in Maycomb, including myself. I had just moved from a college in Winston Country. Almost 30 years have past since that day in Maycomb when I first saw the school I was to be learn at. The classroom smelt stale after being closed up for the whole summer, as I met my students who I would teach for the next year. The one churl I remember most had a trail of dirty footprints leading to his desk. The little horror looked like he was straight from the pig pen.After a hectic morning, the children were coming inside from the playground. The filthy child I acknowledged in the morning, walked past. He smelled of farmyard animals. I can still recall his stench directly some 30 years on. I was fascinated by the filthiness of his hands which were the colour of the earth, which had so distracted me that I didnt even notice a massive insect which ambushed me from his head of grimy hair.Its alive I exclaimed with horror.The childre n rushed to my attention, one child shut the door so we could fleetly execute the creature. The children fired a million questions at me ab show up the creatures whereabouts, but all I could do it unsteadily point at the unclean boy with grimy hair.You mean him maam? Yes, hes alive, only something a child could say. I told him about the insect and how it crawled out of the boys hair. The boy seamed to find it amusing that I was scared of the creature they called a cootie. He assured me that there...