Up to her elbows in gak: College student is making a mess of her summer
"Are they gummy worms?" asked someone in front.
"I am not common to feed you guys real worms," said Natalie.
"I ate a cricket," said Will Parks.
"What's the chocolate make a pig?" asked Skylar Hunter, of Belleville.
"Pudding."
"I am hungry."
"We are going to crush up Oreos and put them in your pudding," continued Natalie, a obscene rag hanging from her bluejeans back pocket. "You have to eat your pie with your hands."
"I love Oreos," said Allie Zipfel, 6.
"Can I eat this out of whack piece of cookie?"
"My worm is sinking."
Six-year-old Spencer Tebbe, of Breese, lifted a spin and sucked down his pudding.
"It's good," he said. "I usually have a spoon, but there's no spoon. It's really, really urgently to lick it out."
Teacher Natalie, patient, laid back and unflappable, answered questions, helped douche 16 pairs of hands, cleaned up messes and managed to complete three goopy projects in a three-hour patch.
When she's not up to her elbows in goop, she's applying Band-Aids and getting sprayed with a water gun at Cathedral's summer daycare program. If that's not enough, she child-sits the kids she sees all day.
