Oh and!
Parts of the building where I work is about 50 years old. Some parts are new (they built some new classrooms 10 years ago) but other parts? Outdated. My classroom is in the older section. The foods, sewing, and one computer lab are in the old part. I think they’ve had some renovations, but not much. The science labs are incredibly old. Up until last year, they had what looked like copper kitchen sinks in them. Which is not exactly the best idea for a science lab where chemicals are going to be poured into them. Certain chemicals + copper = Death. Or so I recall from my days in the chem lab when I was in high school. Well. Maybe I don’t remember that so well. Did I ever tell you about the time I set something on fire? I actually think it was my lab partner who did it, but I ended up with the blame. Okay yeah, probably it was due to me not paying any attention to our experiment, but really! She should have been paying attention, too!
Anyway. They’ve been sort of renovating things lately. The science labs got new fixtures and fittings over the summer (during which time they found a dissected frog from 1963 way at the back of some cupboard somewhere). A couple of classrooms (including mine) got new whiteboards, and I got new maps and a globe. Other classes got LCD projectors built in to their ceilings. This summer, I *might* (might not, but might) get new desks to replace the ones I have that are always just filled with garbage. And at some point within the next 5 years, they are going to put shelving into my room.
It’s a little bit crazy, how excited I get about such things.
I must be really tired because the first time I read this I thought you said you set your lab partner on fire. LOL!
Did they keep the dissected frog…? I mean, if it survived *that* long they should have encased it in glass as a shrine or something.