onces again, and little kiddies

I heard another version of the onces story, where it's the miners' submissive wives that create the code so that their husbands don't know that they are drinking.

They like me, they really like me!  Last Friday I had class with 4th grade for the first time (schedule changes, never ends), and when I walked into the classroom I got a standing ovation, complete with shrieking that only 8- and 9-year-old girls can achieve.  It was deafening, and definitely hard-warming. :)  And again, a week ago I had class on a Saturday because we get next Friday off and they had to make up for it.  I was walking around the school after my last class and saw the preschool class lined up after their computation lesson.  The girl I mentioned before, Alondra, spots me and yells, "Tía!" and runs over to give me a hug.  Immediately, the others turn around to see what she's doing, and soon I'm being hugged by so many children that they cut off my air, knock me over, and I end up at the bottom of a wriggling pile of miniature people.  I had a headache for hours afterwards, but it was possibly the sweetest thing and the only thing that made up for having to work on a Saturday.

P.S. the littler kids, until about 6th grade, refer to their teachers as tía or tío (aunt or uncle).  After that, they are Profe, or in English class, Teacher, or Miss.