New Schoolyear Welcomes Back With New Inapropriate Comments

Like I told before, you're never the only pregnant lady at a primary school. I don't really notice I walk around with a visible bump, but the reactions of my not-so-close colleagues are somewhat strange sometimes. Yesterday I walked into the toilets, passing two kindergarten teachers. I've just closed the door of the stall, when I hear one of them commenting to the other: "There are a lot of round bellies walking around right now!" I nearly replied rather loudly: "I'm still here, you know."

Growing Stuffed Bear

Class mascot and perpetual inhabitant of first grade Bear got cleaned up over the Summer. Mama sew him trousers (he's been sitting with his butt naked in my class over the last two years), and she washed his shirt. Right now he's sitting on the couch in our office, quietly waiting for me to take him back to school.

P.: "That Bear has grown over the Summer. He must go to second grade. He's too big to be in first grade."
Me: "I think his shirt shrank."
P.: "No, he really has this serious and wizened look in his eyes. He's older, I tell you."