I'm going to the moon and I'm taking my flannel pajama bottoms.

Lately there have been a lot of discipline issues at school. Marijuana on the bus. Language sailors would blush to hear. "STUDENTS!, talk like your grandma is sitting next to you.” I call it pre-WASL spring stress. The principal calls it lack of goals.

So on Friday she passed out goal setting surveys for each kid to fill out. Questions like “What college do you want to go to?”, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, etc. One of the questions was “If you could have twenty things, what would they be?”

Understandably, some of my students had a hard time after about five things they wanted, most of us don’t have a running total we have easy access to that quickly. To be helpful, I wrote some incredibly random things on the board to inspire them to think beyond the obvious nano i pod, clothes from Hollister, a million dollars, yada, yada, yada.

My Suggestions:

• planetarium in my house,
• a puppy,
• national parks pass,
• surfing lessons,
• a cupcake,
• vacation to New Zealand,
• a telescope,
• fraction skills,
  
• waffle iron,
• a very minor role in a very major film,
• more rocks for my rock collection,
• for Pluto to have its planet rights reinstated, (we miss you Pluto!)

But here’s my quandary; if you read the question carefully, is it saying you would get these additional twenty things along with all of the other things you currently have? Or do you only get twenty items to own? Are you getting sent off to the moon and may take only twenty items? Curious. I'm going to the moon and I'm taking my flannel pajama bottoms. What would you take?