There was big news this afternoon after a year eleven had to go to hospital when he unknowingly ate a space cake, well it's either that or he went home. Reports from pupils varied from 'he went a bit funny' to 'he had a fit'. No doubt it will all come out in the wash as they say.
He'd been supplied the cake by a supposed friend who'd passed it off as a perfectly innocent confectionary treat. There's no news as to whether they're still friends but it seems unlikely.
The supplier is actually in my class and is a nice lad but a little stupid form time to time, I guess this was one of those times. It meant a disrupted afternoon for all teaching year eleven and I even had to reassure the girl who claimed to have 'grassed him up' that she'd done the right thing. She was tearful about it after seeing the boy in tears himself, but to be honest he deserves to be, it's no good crying once you've been caught. I explained that if she hadn't told anyone he might have tried the same trick on someone else and how she's done everyone a huge favour. I was quite pleased with myself as I don't get on especially well with this girl so managing to be sympathetic towards her wasn't easy.
Later in the maths office there was lots of hypothesising about what will happen to the supplier. One teacher even said that he should swing, which I'm assuming is saying he should be metaphorically hanged rather than sending him to play at the park. It's somewhat hard to imagine him being especially welcome among his peers after a prank like that, though at the same time expelling pupils is extremely rare, but this is an exceptional case.
Meanwhile it fell to me to explain to my sligtly older coleagues about what a space cake actually is, which seeing as I'm so completely naive and innocent probably means I was talking rubbish. They were confused as they thought of cannabis as being leafy and couldn't see how you could turn it into a cake. If I didn't know better I'd swear they were looking for a recipe. I think it's something to do with the resin rather than simply throwing the leaves into a sponge mix, but I'm certainly no expert.
We're not sure what the outcome wil be but it'll probably turn out that the whole situation has been massively exagerated and they were actually eating flake cakes and not space cakes and that the other lad had a previously undiscovered chocolate allergy.
Watch this space (cake).
