School is back in full swing after Monday’s snow day, which is to say that after tomorrow I will have worked just three days this week. Last week I worked only one. I don’t know how I’ve not yet been hospitalized for exhaustion, what with this laborious schedule I’m forced to keep. Thankfully, going “back” to work isn’t so bad when you actually like what you do. Today I met a group of students for the first time, and as I always do I made them introduce themselves before we started the day’s lesson. Usually I ask them to tell me their name, their age, and something about themselves or something they like to do. Here are my top three favorite moments of the day:
- When a student said “I am seventy years old,” instead of "I am seventeen years old," and only one other girl understood the mistake.
- When a student began his introduction by shouting “Hello, girl!” at me, and concluded it by saying, “I like…drink.”
- When a student said, “I am Damian, I have 16 years, and…I love you.”
It’s probably a good thing that my first inclination is to laugh at these moments, because it means I laugh a lot at work, which is incredibly lucky, and also because it means I can avoid some very awkward moments – a win-win.
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