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Winnie The Pooh Monologue

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My Fluffy, Yellow Rear-End "Hey, look at his butt!" Jack whispers, sending his friends into ceaseless bouts of giggles. After fifteen minutes of meticulously planned instruction, the group of five-year-olds retained one idea: Winnie-the-Pooh's hindquarters were much more entertaining than learning about hand hygiene. I demonstrate proper handwashing techniques once more, while my pride, and the minute remnants of Vaseline on my hand, make a Usain Bolt-like dash towards the drain of the polished metal basin. As a teenager, fitting in was an enigma in itself. Like the coffee that jolted you out of zombie-mode, the "how-did-I-not-fall-asleep-on-the-bathroom-floor-?" period of everyone's morning, social anxiety provided me with a daily slap in the face. Ahh, my warm morning cup of …show more content…

From afar a sweaty teenager inside of a Winnie-the-Pooh costume looks to either be a laughing stock or a cute sight to behold, the former being applicable in my case. We meet the students and begin to unearth the presentation materials from within the cloth chamber of chaos known as our Red Cross bag. Immediately after, a little girl makes her way to a poster, unravels a wet, pink muscle from within her mouth, and licks the poster. "Alright, let's just present." I whisper to the team while I usher her to her seat. "Hey, we're here to talk about hand washing" Scrubby Bear, a.k.a the name of the bear which everyone realizes is Winnie-the-Pooh, announces "Did you know that there are monsters on your hands-" "Yeah, they're called germs." the group moans as if they were teenagers. "You wash your hands like this" a preschooler teaches us, the presenters, amidst scrubbing his hands and rolling his eyes. We make our way to the sink and I ask "So, what is the first step?" All but one of the students groan "Turn on the water." That was when Jack, the observant preschooler, saw the humor of Winnie-the-Pooh's

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