A TEACHER! at Disney

[Simba_Lover]

Tell me if this is strange!
I live a 2 days drive from Disney, and we had JUST arrived there! we have not been there for 20 minutes yet! Well, are rooms were not ready at the Polly...So we went to get on the monneral.(sp?) And my teacher was RIGHT BEHIND ME! It scared the living day lights out of me! We said hi....and we talked alittle. But We were not even there for 20 minutes! How STRAnGE IS THAT!?

 

[Miss Kelly]

Wow! That is pretty strange.

 

[DVC Jen]

It is very strange for a student to see a teacher out in the "real world". My students are shocked when we run into each other outside of school. Even though they know I have a family .. ya just don't think of them as "real people".

At least you know your teacher has great taste right?

 

[Danauk]

As the ride says, It's a small world!!

I am a teacher and last year I went to WDW. When I returned to school I had a student teacher placed with my class on her teaching practice from our local university. She noticed some of my Disney things in my room and we started chatting about WDW. It turns out she arrived at WDW the day we left!! Bear in mind we are both from England so we had travelled a fair distance!!

 

[CinderellaIam]

This happened to my DD on a Spring Break trip 5 years ago when she was a freshman in H.S. We sat down to dinner in the Liberty Tree Tavern and at the very next table was her S.S. teacher! She freaked and wanted to leave...not supposed to see a TEACHER on Spring Break! He was very nice, came over and told her he was not supposed to see a STUDENT on Spring Break! lol! He wished her, and the rest of us a super vacation. When she returned to school she said he was really cool about it, never said a word, but one day she found "pixie dust" on her desk and when she looked up at the teacher he just winked at her.

 

[Vanryan]

That is very strange!!! As a teacher myself, I bet she was thinking: "What are the chances, here I am on vacation and I bump into a student!!!"

 

[Terry S]

Last year my daughters teacher ran into one of her current students on a cruise during spring break! That was really a small world. I am sure the teacher was thinking "this is not fair"!

 

[marypops!]

i just posted this on the teen boards so ill post it again
i once saw one of our schools dinnerladies
she was at M.G.M walking out of the pooh shop
something strange about it was that she left the same day as was and got there the same day as us

 

[NCombs]

Last year we were walking across the parking lot to go into Sea World when we heard someone say "there's Alex" (my son). Turns out it was another family from our town in Iowa who live just 2 or 3 blocks from us entering Sea World at the same time we were.

The next day we were at MGM and my husband saw a teenage boy with a t-shirt on with the name of an Iowa town on it so he started talking to the kid. A few minutes later the boy's dad comes up and it turns out to be the restaurant manager who my husband and I used to work for at a Country Kitchen back in college over 18 years ago. In fact, you have to give some credit to him for us even meeting each other since he hired us and that is where we met.

We couldn't believe it.

 

[buckeye]

I've learned that it is not at all strange for teachers and students to run into each other at the World. My husband sees a student or two every trip we take. Kids love him though, so they are actually HAPPY to see him!!

This Easter trip we saw one of his students at Tusker House and I ran into my college roommate getting on Splash Mountain.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I remember how shocking it was for me to see a student of mine at WDW. I was teaching at a Boarding School about 2500 miles away, the student lived about 2000 miles away. And it was on a very poorly attended Enight (too cold for most people), so of all the people to be there, the odds of both him and me=about one in a million. And I saw him twice-once in HM, once at Buzz.

 

[Sarahsal]

We went to the Contemporary for Mass this Easter. A woman walks up to me as we are leaving and says "Hi, my son rides the school bus with your children!" Very weird.

 

[jenr812]

This happened to my DD on a Spring Break trip 5 years ago when she was a freshman in H.S. We sat down to dinner in the Liberty Tree Tavern and at the very next table was her S.S. teacher! She freaked and wanted to leave...not supposed to see a TEACHER on Spring Break! He was very nice, came over and told her he was not supposed to see a STUDENT on Spring Break! lol! He wished her, and the rest of us a super vacation. When she returned to school she said he was really cool about it, never said a word, but one day she found "pixie dust" on her desk and when she looked up at the teacher he just winked at her.

Aww that was sweet!

That would likely freak my kids out too

 

[Sandy51]

I ran into one of my current students on March 28 in the gift shop of Tower of Terror. She about freaked. She knew I was going to WDW but never thought she would see me there.


Sandy

 

[strmtroopr96]

I did the College Program at WDW in 1997 and I worked at the World of Disney. I looked up one day to see my old gym teacher shopping in my room (Jungle/Men's Room). I thought it was so funny because we live in Upstate New York. That same day, a family came in that I used to baby-sit for as well. LOL Rebecca

 

[denecarter]

I taught high school in a small Texas town (<300 in hs) for three years before deciding to move on to another district. Fast forward a year. It is summer and my daughter and I are at the Magic Kingdom for an e-night. We're riding Big Thunder... it stops, we're starting to stand up and I hear "Ms. Carter?" One of my former students (had him his Freshman through Junior years) was waiting to get into the seat I was vacating.

 

[marypops!]

As the ride says, It's a small world!!

I am a teacher and last year I went to WDW. When I returned to school I had a student teacher placed with my class on her teaching practice from our local university. She noticed some of my Disney things in my room and we started chatting about WDW. It turns out she arrived at WDW the day we left!! Bear in mind we are both from England so we had travelled a fair distance!!

what school do you teach at
also that cat in your sink looks like my cat and shes called muffin

 

[donnajon]

This reminds me of an article I read by "Ask Marilyn." Someone asked her how come you always run into someone with the same birthday as yours? What are the chances of that? Her response was: Say you have 365 people and you ask them each to pick a date. What are the chances of them all picking a different day? Very slim! You're more likely to have two or more people to pick the same date. So, if you think about all of the people who go to Disney everyday, what are the chances that no one will see anyone they know? Kind of interesting if you think of it like that.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

On my last trip in October I saw three of my students. I am a librarian so I have over 700 students, but still it was wild. Two were siblings so that really only counts as one I guess, but we ran into them once at MNSSHP and then later in the elevator at AKL. Another we saw in line at Dumbo, and then I ran into a former student that I had taught 10 years ago when I taught high school while in Ice Station Cool. The trip before that in October 2003 we saw another set of sisters from my school in line for Jungle Cruise. Talk about a "Small World"!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

WAIT A MINUTE! I thought it was a law or something that teachers slept at the school and didn't have lives outside of it. They make up all that stuff about having spouses and kids!
I feel like my entire life has been a lie. I think you're all lying. My DNiece is going to the same grade school that I did and I know for a fact that alot of those teachers are still there. They must have been sleeping there all those years!!

But on a side note, we ran into friends one August night in DTD. Has anybody ever been to DTD on an August night?! I could barely see 2 feet in front of me with the size of the crowd. Of course my DD (3 at the time) kept "seeing" all of her other friends in the crowd after that. "Look there's Emily, there's Ben, etc."