Remember that Office Episode....?

So I don't know which of you happen to watch the Office, but imagine that 1 hour Super Bowl special from this year. At the start Dwight sets off the fire alarm and chaos breaks loose with people jumping through the ceiling, breaking vending machines, breaking the window and yelling for help, throwing cats into the ceiling, having a heart attack, etc. Well that was school today, the first Friday that was REALLY HOT!
Kids are naturally crazy on a Friday, and naturally crazy when it's hot....bad combination in and of itself. Well this Friday I take out my class (3rd grade) at 7:20 in the morning for a little walk around school looking for geometric shapes. I realize all of the sudden the 6th graders are playing soccer and not in class! One of the other teachers I walk by makes a comment to me but I don't really think anything of it yet. Then at 7:45 I find out the teacher didn't call ANYBODY and just didn't show up at school. Left no lesson plans or anything. So Megan (the director) is busy teaching first grade as that teacher is gone. Linda (another back-up sub) is busy cause she's teaching fourth grade. Norma (Honduran director) is busy cause two Honduran teachers are gone and she's covering for them. So what happens? We close the library and Diana (my counterpart) goes into the classroom with no lesson plans and little idea of what is happening. Now all this passes and life goes on as a normal Friday. Then all of the sudden I see one of my kids walking around at 10am....they have Spanish class from 9:20-10:40 so I ask her, "Maricruz what are you doing?" Her response was ridiculous! "It's...well....the teacher said we no have class now." And sure enough, right behind her come all the other kids in the class just walking around...for 40 minutes! Ok....now I think, this is ridiculous. In that very second all the secondary kids (7th-9th) are all out moving rocks for their final PE exam. Some are just making a pile in the middle of the school, some are raking dirt, some are shoveling gravel into wheel-barrows and taking it who knows where? So I just sit and stare as all these kids are doing nothing for their final exam, then my third graders are walking around aimlessly....then come the 6th graders! The ones without a teacher, they're coming to help move rocks under supervision of the kindergarten teacher while his kids do who knows what?! So we have 3rd and 6th-9th all out on this tiny field moving rocks and walking around aimlessly! What was going on!? Well the kids finally went back to class, we had library (with me), computers, and some art after that and made it through the day semi-normally. I couldn't believe how ridiculous the day was. At least it wasn't like yesterday where I had a kid stuck upside down on the little climbing net. A third grader that couldn't pick himself up from the net! He was stuck by his knees and hit his head on the ground, bawling as a first grade teacher picked him off the ground and a third grade teacher struggled to pull out his leg which was all twisted in the net. The kid cried for 10 or 15 minutes, but he walked back to class in mostly one piece.:)