My day today was completely normal, average, run of the mill. I had two classes where I spent most of the time walking around helping kids out with review worksheets and ocaissonally stopping to have chats about this or that. In one class some of the ‘bad students’ in the back hadn’t started their sheet, I made my way over and pointed at the vocabulary and said, “Come on you can do this, it’s simple.” Apparantly they found this hilarious as it sounded like “shimple,” a colloquial word for penis. This brought the conversation away from vocab to the dirty aspects of English, for example “Pushy?…Pushy?” I think for a minute….”Ah yes, pussy.”
Understanding flows around the group, “Ahh, pusshy.”
Before things get out of hand I use my ketai translator to show them the word for slang. I think they got that ‘pushy’ isn’t something you’d hear in a doctor’s office.
I actually like those guys, they are the ‘bad kids’ or whatever that means in Japan, but when I come over to their desks they at least try the work rather than giving me more of the wonderful glaring eyes I receive from so many of their peers.
Even on those days when it’s attitude up the wazoo, when all I want to do is crawl back into my 45 degree bed…it’s better than what my friend Jaime has to put up with.
Being a girl she has to deal with sexual innuendo and advances from her horny teenagers. She’s grown a thick skin to this sort of thing but what happened today was nothing less than nuts. From our web forum:
I can’t believe a kid actually jerked off during class! I was disappointed enough that another boy in the same class gestured it when he and his buddies were talking, but to ACTUALLY do it! Beyond that, I seemed to be the only one who noticed, he sits in the back corner. Its probably not the first time hes done is now that I think about it. Damn 15 yr olds.
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