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I hate being quiet!

Being quiet today is driving me crazy!

As part of my class this morning we had to spend 5 minutes just being quiet and observing the room around us using our senses. By 2 minutes I was wiggling. By 3 minutes I was playing with the toys in the middle of the table. By 4 minutes I was losing it. And at 5 minutes, you found me in the bathroom because I couldn't take the quiet any longer.

I found it very interesting that I couldn't do it, but then found out that there were others in the room that were just as un-comfortable as I was. I think it has a lot to do with being early childhood educators. We are trained to know that if its too quiet, then something bad is probably happening. :-)

As part of our class we had to put on a blindfold and have a person who we didn't know very well guide us around a campground where we have never been before. That was quite the amazing experience for me. Partly because I was run into a tree branch because she was looking down so I wouldn't trip and then a few steps later she had me walk in some terribly wet grass and my foot just squished down. It was interesting how much and how quickly your other senses come into play when one of them is down. I could even tell more in how my body reacted to things like going down a slope, stepping in the wet grass, and when they asked me to touch something and try and figure out what it was.

Tonight I went with some other teachers to dinner which was delightful, but oh how I'm paying for it now. My tummy and I are in total dis-agreement in the taste issue! After dinner we had decided to look for a movie theater and found one after driving around for 20 minutes and it is only playing 2 movies, neither one of which my co-car-riders wanted to see, so scratch that idea.

So, we finally went to our rooms around 6:30 and I noted that there is no television in my room. The only thing that I thought would save me from the quiet and there isn't one. Thank God for my Ipod or I'd totally be climbing the walls. I brought things to occupy me this evening, but nothing seems to be doing the trick. I am so used to background noise that I don't really know how to be quiet.

Is that just me or is that our society as a whole? Can we just not be quiet for a little while? i don't care about society right now! This is driving me crazy!