My White Hair
Posted by Ellen at 1/10/2008 6:27 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
I am a computer teacher in a private K-8 school in Charlotte. Yesterday a first-grade boy came into my classroom, but as everyone else logged onto their computer, he hung back. He looked confused. So I knelt down to his eye level and said, "Vaughn, what's up?" and he looked at my face and then glanced at the top of my head and then looked at my face again. I said, "You're still not used to my hair, are you?" because I let it go back to its natural white/gray over the summer. I gained freedom from hair dye!!! Vaughn kinda shook his head and stared at my hair. "Does it make me look old?" I asked him. He nodded his head and then that confused look passed over his face again. "But Mrs. V," he said, "you don't have old skin!" Well, that made me laugh! I just shrugged my shoulders and said, "That's the way God made me, huh?" and that seemed to satisfy him and he went to his seat and logged onto his computer.
That made me wonder with a little bit of fear... what will Sayfou and Matterline think of their white-headed mom? Will they be disappointed? Will they think they got gypped because their American mother is O-L-D?
That made me wonder with a little bit of fear... what will Sayfou and Matterline think of their white-headed mom? Will they be disappointed? Will they think they got gypped because their American mother is O-L-D?
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