As I walked around the class checking the students work I noticed one of my students, one of the more brilliant ones was just sitting there bored, sketching in his notebook. It did not matter the class was less than half over, his notebook was completely finished for the day; the national curriculum is far below his English level. A thick, dark apathetic cloud hung around his head like a Russian Ushanka hat.
"Hello, how are you" I said, hoping to engage him.
"Oh teacher do you like winter?" the student asked. "No, I like summer" I replied haphazardly.
"Oh wow! why?" perked up as he realized we were having an actual English conversation. "I don't like snow and I like summer vacation"
"oh really?" he said with a glint of curiousness in his eyes.
"Yes"
"Where will you go?" the student asked, genuinely interested as his cloud of apatheticness started to dissolve.
"Egypt"
His mind was blown. He sat up in his seat. The cloud was gone.
"Really?"
"Yes"
Amazed he was able to mutter out "I will come with?"
With a smile and a grin I answered "No you wont, it will be my honeymoon."
"Honeymoon?" he said confused. Then the "light bulb" went off and he realized what I just said.
"Oh-my-god!-Do-you-have-a-baby?!?!-That-is-unbeleviable?-That-is-SO-fantastic!-What-is-its-name?-Is-it-a-boy-or-girl?" he bellowed out in one long, excited, hyphenated sentence with out hardly taking a single breath.
"I don't have a baby." I said
"Oh" he said as all the excitement seemed to fall flat and his cloud spontaneously reformed itself and he went back to sketching in his notebook.
Eh. Guess you can't win all the time
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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I guess his English still needs some work!
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