Best Friends - Ms. Levosky and Mr. Walker

Riverdale Review: How did you meet?

Ms. Allison Levosky: At this job

Mr. Tyler Walker: I remember the day that we met was here and I was organizing folders. We were doing preclassroom work before the school year started.

AL: No the first time was under the tent

TW: But we had our first conversation here when we were getting ready for the school year. We had no idea who each other were. “I don’t know this person but I hope they’re going to be cool.”

AL: And they better be because it’s going to be all day every day.

RR: What’s your favorite thing about the other person?

TW: You keep me more grounded and not let me spiral. Well you let me spiral a little for your entertainment, but then you stop it before it goes too far.

AL: The surface level one is the memes and videos that you send me. I never know what to expect: it’s either a really good recording, music video, singing, or something, or it’s a really bad one. I never know which one it’s going to be when I open it. That’s the surface level one. I like that we’re on the same page about our teaching and what we want out of the program.

TW: We have a similar choral music background and we’ve discovered that together. We have the same goals for the department.

AL: It feels good to be on the same page with someone you spend all this time with.

RR: What’s a pet peeve?

AL: I hate when he talks about his toenail.

TW: Oh stop! I don’t have a bad toenail. I had an issue in Scotland.

AL: And I hate when you troll me in class and I can’t say what I want to say.

TW: But that’s my most fun thing to do. My pet peeve…gosh I haven’t thought about that one.

AL: I’ve never annoyed you in my life.

TW: I’m going to come back to that one. It hasn’t come up to the surface yet.

RR: Would you still like the other person if they were a worm?

AL: Yeah!

TW: I would probably give you a name. I would put you up on the music stand in front of the class.

AL: So I could conduct with my no hands?

RR: That’s nice. What’s the best part of your friendship?

TW: Our inside jokes that get us through the day. Whether it’s about teaching or outside of school.

AL: Yeah agree.

RR: Who’s most likely to cry reading a book or watching a movie?

AL: Reading a book, me.

TW: I will cry easily, but not in front of people, I will do it privately. But I will cry during a YouTube music video. If the singing is really good, I will openly cry about that. I’ve cried in this classroom several times just watching someone sing. I’m first to that. In a movie, do you cry in a movie?

AL: Well I cried in Wicked.

TW: And you cried in the musical in the theater.

AL: Oh! In Ragtime. Did you cry too?

TW: No, I got chills though. You would openly cry first.

RR: How are you celebrating Valentine's Day?

TW: Aw! We haven’t made plans! We should.

AL: You’ve inspired us to do something.

TW: Maybe we should do a lunch date on that Friday. Sometimes we sneak off and do lunch dates, but that’s very rare. It’s like once a semester. And I shouldn’t use the word sneak. We both eat lunch together like adults.

RR: What’s your favorite thing to do together?

AL: Teaching together is really fun.

TW: That’s a lame answer because we teach together all day, but I do really enjoy teaching together.

AL: We also really like watching videos and or going to shows together. We went to Ragtime recently.

TW: We also do talk about choral music a lot. We sit together and talk about our hopes and dreams for the department. That will make me cry, I do cry when we talk about that sometimes.

RR: That’s all the questions. Anything to add?

TW: Oh! My pet peeve. Oh the way she draws treble clefs. That’s absolutely my pet peeve.