1st Day Back

So, first of all, let me just say WELCOME BACK...to a new year of Wonka, to the blog, to your one-stop-shopping-center for all the info on the happs dealing with those crazy Wonka kids. We're here and we're settling in for another 10 months of fun....

That being said, I've been trying to decide how best to report this FIRST DAY BACK. And finally, at 1am, I think I've found a way to best describe how things went down today. But it's going to take your willingness to go with me on a journey...

Imagine with me, if you will, that you're back in school (elementary...middle...high school...you choose....) and you're summer just came to a screeching halt. Today was YOUR first day back in the halls and in the classrooms and around the school that you know. You've been here before...you started new at the school last year...but quickly adjusted...made some great friends...and had a ton of totally righteous 'school experiences.' So you're excited to get back to school.

But as soon as you're back....you realize that something has changed. You can't really put your finger on it...but there is just something of a bizzaro-world feeling going on. The halls are the same - the lockers are the same - the desks are the same - EVERYTHING looks and smells and feels the same...but your large expanse of friends are gone. One or two stuck around...but unbeknownst to you over the summer, everyone else packed up and headed to the new school on the other side of tour. (or in NYC or in Orlando or where ever...location is not key to this 'story'....) And you suddenly feel a little bit foreign....in a place you already know.

Does it mean that you can't make new friends? Heck no it doesn't. (The words of the wildly popular star of Barbie Live in Fairytopia, the sagelike TOPAZ, comes to mind: "Just think of all the love you'll share....with the friends you haven't met." Or something shmaltzy like that.)
Does it mean it's going to be a bad school year? Not at all. Does it mean you won't get your head pushed into the toilet during classes and you won't get an awesome swirly? Keep dreaming fat boy. It doesn't mean anything bad or terrible or unfortunate has taken over your school or is going to happen to you this year. It's just means things are....different....

oh yeah....and it means your first day of school is going to be really WEIRD......or atleast MINE was.