Sunday, March 15, 2009

Technical difficulties PART-UH three

I guess I have put off writing this post for some time. It concerns one of my more unique students.

It strikes me with no small amount of irony that he is one of the few students that tries to speak in English with me, while at the same time is very hard to control in class, funny, but somewhat violent at times and getting into a lot of fights at school.

The first time we spoke he said:
A: "Teachaa...you....wife-uh?"
B: "oh, no....no wife"
A: "Girlfriend?"
B: "No....."
A: "Oh nooooo! Teachaa...you...should have-uh....Korea wife-uh....and Canada wife-uh....and Korea girlfiend! same-same!"
B: "whaaaat?"
A: " Oooo kay! high five! yeaaa!"
B: "Are you crazy?" [class laughs]
A: "Yeaaa me crazy!!! whooooo"[grabs worksheet and tears it in half!]

Then today the co-teacher left me alone with them, and he started getting out of hand. Walking around and trying to hit students in the forehead with a giant ruler. So I struck up a conversation concerning our weekly topic of "what is your dream?" to try and slow him down.

B: "Hey...sit down!...ok...what is your dream?"
A: "Ohhh, I love-uh driving! yeaaa!"
B: "and?"
A: "cool drive! [acts out driving with one hand on steering wheel]......and-uh smooooking! [ takes out a cigarette and pretends to smoke with one hand on the wheel]"
B: "Ohhh....day-time dream? driving and smoking?"
A: "....Yes-uh!"
B: "and Night-time dream?"
A: "Smoking girl date-uh!"

The real funny thing is that, not an hour ago, I reported his antics with the ruler to the co-teacher and asked about his life at school. My co-teacher's response was

A: "Oh yeah, he has many problems. But it is OK, he is a school leader. His job is to keep the students from smoking at break time....."
B: "Whaaat? He just told me today that he smokes!"
A: "....Really?......oh..."

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