My Volunteering Experience for Falmouth 5th Graders. Great Radio Questions Asked.

I volunteered at Mr. Carter's 5th grade class at Falmouth Elementary School. I was helping with math. After Mr. Carter helped ME with math, I was good to go. But the kids wanted a shout out and wrote me some notes...

The kids were sweet. Here are some of the things they wanted me to say for their shout out:

• Sloan wanted everyone to know she 'scores up to 12 points a game and that the team is 9-0'
• Addy is 'boss as well as the Patriots'
• Lucus is the 'best basketball player'
• Kaleb is the 'future Lebron James'
• Clara is 'the angel child'
• Maddie says she is the  'most aweome of the Maddies'
• Patty wears 'bonnets every day and loves history'
• Ryan L is 'honest abe' and wrote 'Hi Mom'
• Anna is 'the most amazing and best person in the world'
• Chloe wrote: 'You know who' (yes I do!)

But my favorite was from Max. He wrote, 'I don't know you, but you're still awesome.'

I stuck around for a while after I got through the fractions volunteering to answer questions from the kids. Great questions!

• 'Do you ever get used to getting up early?' - Nope. I've been doing it for 23 years and that alarm always upsets me.
• 'What do you do in between talking?' - Great question! All sorts of things including talking to listeners, getting ready for the next time we chat, updating website and sometimes eating.
• 'What song are you sick of?' - Don't tell Adele...but 'Hello' is starting to get to me.
• 'How old are you?' - Before I answered, someone yelled '30!'...I let it be the answer.
• 'How do you pick the songs you play?' - We don't pick the songs! There are people whose job it is to figure out exactly what songs fit our format.
• 'Do you get to interview famous people?' - Yes! It's a perk of the job and super fun! We have had the chance to meet some very famous singers (Maroon 5) actors (Alec Baldwin) and even sports stars (Malcom Butler).

Then there was one little boy who had a question and he would not accept my answer:

'What are the Powerball numbers?'

I tried to convince him that I did not know. He was relentless. He was convinced that not only did I know, but that he could get the numbers out of me. I told him that if he heard me on the radio the next day, it was PROOF I didn't know the numbers.

He insisted on following me with a pencil and a sticky and ask for the numbers. I gave in and wrote down a bunch of numbers. I'm not sure if he won anything!