My Kids.

For the most part, the kids at Shane are enjoyable to teach. Actually, entertaining is more like it. They're nice kids but they never cease to amuse me - nervously farting during a one-on-one oral exam, picking their noses then quickly stuffing it in their mouths. Just the other day, two boys from my older class gave each other lap dances for the sake of acting out a love story. In return for a job well done, I granted them less homework. You're thinking - how perverse, tricking young boys into homosexuality. It's true. But I bet you're just mad you didn't come up with the idea sooner. Seriously though, it is frustrating at times when they just refuse to learn and you realize just how bad it is come midterm/final exam. For example, a recent oral exam went a little something like this -

Me: Do you drink a lot of milk?
Student: In my refrigerator, there are a few eggs.
Me: (slowly repeating with a few hand gestures) Do...you...drink...a lot...of...milk?
Student: There are a lot of milk.


I'm thinking: wow. I kid you not. I actually witnessed a similar situation while Teacher Paul was giving an oral exam (funny, no pun intended) that went like this -


Paul: (holding up a blue pen) Is this pen blue?
Student: My name is John.
Paul: No no, see this? (waves pen) Is it blue?
Student: Today....(blank stare)
Paul: Is it blue? (Starts giving away the answer by nodding) 'Yes, it....'
Student: Yes, it do!


Clever young things aren't they? And they love imagining this crazy life for me...





















And we got two new teachers: Tom and Gemma, both of them taught in Vietnam before coming to Taiwan. We went out for a couple of drinks at The Voice, where we also met two other teachers they knew from Vietnam. Brenda (one of my TA's), and Trent was there two. Double fisting of course.