My students are always excitedly shouting, sometimes in English, but usually Chinese. With 3,000 other students, it's their only way to compete for a teacher's attention. However, this most recent shoutout was equally shocking and confusing.
For the Chinese New Year, our school gave each teacher a batch of goodies: a new coffee - or rather, tea cup, a bottle of olive oil, a 10 kg sack of rice, and an entire box of apples. As I was preparing to travel and therefore was trying to empty my kitchen, I decided NOT to consume all 3 dozen apples myself and gave most of them away to my students.
The next day a girl shouted at me across the school grounds "Mr. Yee, your apple is delicious!!!" At first I thought she was making some sort of new sexual innuendo I wasn't yet familiar with. But no, I have to remember that when teaching students a foreign language, you have to listen and interpret things very, very literally. She was simply just very hungry and very grateful for the snack. And I was simply just being my perverted self...
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Byron Yee
TEFL English Teacher - Shenzhen, China
For the Chinese New Year, our school gave each teacher a batch of goodies: a new coffee - or rather, tea cup, a bottle of olive oil, a 10 kg sack of rice, and an entire box of apples. As I was preparing to travel and therefore was trying to empty my kitchen, I decided NOT to consume all 3 dozen apples myself and gave most of them away to my students.
The next day a girl shouted at me across the school grounds "Mr. Yee, your apple is delicious!!!" At first I thought she was making some sort of new sexual innuendo I wasn't yet familiar with. But no, I have to remember that when teaching students a foreign language, you have to listen and interpret things very, very literally. She was simply just very hungry and very grateful for the snack. And I was simply just being my perverted self...
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Byron Yee
TEFL English Teacher - Shenzhen, China
This an a prime example of the usefulness of a ::like:: button. You know, so it wouldn't look so dumb when I write this:
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