Insanity
Posted on January 6, 2005
I nearly forgot, but today there was some in class madness that outshines…most of what has happened so far. In one unit we had to go over the difference between “you LOOK mad” “you SOUND mad” and “you SEEM mad” or any emotion. So that means there has to be some minor acting from the students, which gives some mixed/hilarious results. When Ryouhei (a man) said “I’m getting married!” I would have said “You look uncomfortable!” but the correct answer was of course excited. I told them to make some extra conversation afterwards so they don’t just tear through the activity and leave us with 20 spare minutes at the end of class, so Hiroe (a woman) asked “What is your wife’s name?” A perfectly reasonable question. Now Ryouhei is a very uptight sort of shy guy, so he thought about it for a while and said “Her name is……………………Brad.” So I did the only thing I could do. Collapse onto the table. What do you say about that? Everyone laughed, but since Ryouhei is so spastic most of the time I can’t tell if he was going for that or just blurting out the first name he could think of. OR he just wants to marry me. And who wouldn’t really?
Karl
On January 16, 2005 at 03:23
Well, you know what they said about marrying your students. Consider yourself warned.