I''m preparing to propose to my 23yo girlfriend of almost 6 years who is just about to finish her first year of teaching middle school (6th through 8th grade), and I''m thinking of doing it in her classroom. Apparently the topic of her getting engaged has already come up with her students because she told me that she told them it would be before school is out for the summer. Thus, I''m not terribly worried about the possibility that she would rather keep her personal life separate from her professional/at-school life.
I''m not looking for something like making a video and playing it to the whole school or proposing over the PA system; that''s a little too public. My initial idea was to have a staff member come to her classroom to tell her that she has a delivery to pick up in the main office, which would be flowers from me. Meanwhile, while she went down to pick it up and was stalled for a couple of minute by the secretary, I would slip into her classroom, have the staff member that came down inform the kids in the class what was going on, and wait for her to come back from the office, hopefully thinking to herself that I was up to something (she knows it''s coming soon obviously and the flowers would tip her off) but that it wouldn''t be until later that evening and she would have to wait in anticipation for the rest of the day. Then, to her surprise, I would propose right then and there when she got back to her classroom.
What I''m still unsure about is what should happen when she gets back. Should I be waiting in her room in plain view, or hiding in the back somewhere, or maybe not even in the room but down the hall? I could write "Will you marry me?" on the blackboard and have her kids point it out to her when she came back in (if she didn''t notice it immediately herself). Another idea would be to quickly plant a trail of rose petals leading up to her classroom door while she was down at the office, or have the kids form a "human tunnel"-type thing outside the door, which would give away that something else was going on other than just flowers before she made it back into the room. Or, I could make little signs on card stock stapled to paint stirrer sticks to hand out to all the kids that say something along the lines of "Say, "YES!"" for them to hold up when she came back in, or just enough of them to spell out "Will you marry me?". I could do it late-morning right before her lunch break so she could show off her ring and receive congratulations and tell the rest of her kids for the rest of the afternoon, or wait until the last period of the day (when she has 6th graders, who would probably be more excited about the idea than 8th graders) so she didn''t have to get through the rest of the day before being able to leave and come home.
Anyway, I''m looking for other ideas, variations, suggestions, opinions, anything you can throw at me!
I''m not looking for something like making a video and playing it to the whole school or proposing over the PA system; that''s a little too public. My initial idea was to have a staff member come to her classroom to tell her that she has a delivery to pick up in the main office, which would be flowers from me. Meanwhile, while she went down to pick it up and was stalled for a couple of minute by the secretary, I would slip into her classroom, have the staff member that came down inform the kids in the class what was going on, and wait for her to come back from the office, hopefully thinking to herself that I was up to something (she knows it''s coming soon obviously and the flowers would tip her off) but that it wouldn''t be until later that evening and she would have to wait in anticipation for the rest of the day. Then, to her surprise, I would propose right then and there when she got back to her classroom.
What I''m still unsure about is what should happen when she gets back. Should I be waiting in her room in plain view, or hiding in the back somewhere, or maybe not even in the room but down the hall? I could write "Will you marry me?" on the blackboard and have her kids point it out to her when she came back in (if she didn''t notice it immediately herself). Another idea would be to quickly plant a trail of rose petals leading up to her classroom door while she was down at the office, or have the kids form a "human tunnel"-type thing outside the door, which would give away that something else was going on other than just flowers before she made it back into the room. Or, I could make little signs on card stock stapled to paint stirrer sticks to hand out to all the kids that say something along the lines of "Say, "YES!"" for them to hold up when she came back in, or just enough of them to spell out "Will you marry me?". I could do it late-morning right before her lunch break so she could show off her ring and receive congratulations and tell the rest of her kids for the rest of the afternoon, or wait until the last period of the day (when she has 6th graders, who would probably be more excited about the idea than 8th graders) so she didn''t have to get through the rest of the day before being able to leave and come home.
Anyway, I''m looking for other ideas, variations, suggestions, opinions, anything you can throw at me!
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