Today continued as normal. Somewhat. I got my Grade Nines to write about their thoughts on yesterday and today. I'm really interested in hearing what they have to say. They're asking smart questions and making intellegent remarks. For the most part. It's good to see.

They're scared. They are terrified of what might happen. They are old enough to know what war means and young enough that someone has all the answers. Someone like me.

But you know what... I don't have all the answers. That's the scary thing. I'm the teacher and I'm supposed to. But I don't.

And I wish I did. I wish I could tell these scared children to not worry. That there won't be a war and that there won't be anything that will be worse than yesterday. But I can't. All I can do is try to calm them. While calming myself.

And hoping for a new world. The old one will be fine.

No One Is Alone (taken from http://www.mit.edu/people/nocturne/athena/randomtext/woods.html#No_One_Is_Alone)

Cinderella:
Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.

Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood.Others may deceive you.
You decide what's good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone.

LRRH:
I wish..

Cinderella:
I know.

Mother isn't here now.

Baker:
Wrong things, right things.

Cinderella:
Who knows what she'd say?

Baker:
Who can say what's true?

Cinderella:
Nothing's quite so clear now.

Baker:
Do things, fight things,

Cinderella:
Feel you've lost your way?

Baker:
You decide, but

Both:
You are not alone.

Cinderella:
Believe me,
No one is alone

Baker:
No one is alone.
Believe me.
Truly.

Both:
You move just a finger,
Say the slightest word,
Something's bound to linger,
Be heard.
No one acts alone.
Careful.
No one is alone.

People make mistakes.
Fathers,
Mothers,
People make mistakes,
Holding to their own,
Thinking they're alone.
Honor their mistakes--
Everybody makes--
Fight for they're mistakes--

Both:

Both:
Just Remember
Someone is on your side.

Jack, LRRH:
OUR side.
Baker, Cinderella:
Our side--
Someone else is not.
While we're seeing our side--

Jack, LRRH:
Our side..

Baker, Cinderella:
Our side--

All:
Maybe we forgot: they are not alone.
No one is alone.

Cinderella:
Hard to see the light now.

Baker:
Just don't let it go.

Both:
Things will come out right now.
We can make it so.
Someone is on your side-- [interrupted]

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