I was a substitute teacher

I was working as a substitute teacher at Burns Elementary when I was asked to substitute for a second grade teacher who happened to be my cousin.

One of my assignments that day was to have the children write in their journals about any school field trip they might have enjoyed. They were all trying to think of which field trip they wanted to write about.

Several mentioned a trip to the Denver Zoo they had taken the previous year. I told them that I thought this would be a good topic, and they should mention something at the zoo that they really liked. As an example, I told them I always liked...