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Jonathan's Alien
By Sheilamarie Nellis
When I was teaching fourth grade, several of the boys were fascinated by space aliens and UFO sitings. The music teacher came into the classroom one morning and noticed one of the children was reading a book with the word “alien” in the title during his free reading time. Turning to me, she said, “You know, Mrs. __, my husband is an alien.” She was referring to the fact her husband was British-born and carried a US resident alien card. “Well isn’t that interesting,” I replied. “My husband (who is Canadian- born) is an alien, too.” Some of the children laughed. Others passed knowing looks or whispered to each other. I suppose they were confirming with their classmates that they knew there was something odd about their teachers. But of course, we laughingly assumed they would think we were kidding. That weekend I was spending time in the classroom as I often did, organizing things for the week. The drama club was practicing upstairs, and one little boy from my class came down to get his textbook that he had forgotten to put into his school bag on Friday afternoon. My husband just happened to come by to hurry me along. When he walked into the room, little Jonathan stiffened and looked at him sideways. I started to giggle and asked my husband to pass me his wallet for a minute. “Here, Jonathan, here’s his alien card,” and I pulled out the plastic card with the word “ALIEN” in capital letters beside my husband’s photograph. For security sake, his registration number was stamped in a blue hologram on the photo so that the card could not be faked. Jonathan tipped the card sideways to look at the blue numbers and then handed the card back to me. “He was born in Canada and came to the United States with me several years ago. The little card shows that he was born outside of the US, but that he has the right to work here.” I turned to my husband. “Show Jonathan on the map where you are from,” I said, directing my husband to the map of North America hanging on the side wall. “Look, Jonathan, see this is the Canadian province of Alberta, just north of Montana. The town I grew up in was called Medicine Hat, right by this little dot,” he said. “That’s where you landed, right?” Jonathan looked at my husband sternly and shuddered, then left the room. On Monday morning, Jonathan stood up in front of the class and announced to all the children, “Mrs. __’s husband IS an alien, and he has blue stuff all over his face!”
Sheilamarie taught fourth grade in New Hampshire. Despite what anyone else may tell you, her husband is definitely not from Mars.
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It's a good thing I'm not an educator because I'd be giving that annoying little brat straight F's from thereon then.  Thanks for the cute anecdote.
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Funny story.Thanks for sharing it.
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