April 22nd: law laying and Friday typicalia
[ posted by mcdeviltoast ]
Day 218
The first class of the day started poorly. One of the bad kids had locked the door on me as I approached. I went in through the back door, took my position at the pulpit. The bell rang and those few bad students (one of which I'm certain did the door-locking) took off for the WC. I locked them out, wrote on the board 9:50-10:00 WC time, 10:00-10:45 Class time. The students snickered at it during eye exercises. The bad kids soon beat on the doors and milled about outside. I instructed the other students not to let them in.
Halfway through the lesson, the three came back with a teacher. She explained there was a mistake that they had all cleared up. "Oh really?" I said. "They explained that they left for the WC when the bell rang and class began?" I pointed at what I had written on the board and she nodded, bawled them out in Chinese, the left. I hissed for them to sit.
I called on Yao to tell me why he liked and disliked summer. His answers: "I like summer because...(looked around)...play basketball. I do not like summer because....(looked around)...book." I repeated what he had said, shook my head. "That makes no sense. You are a bad student. Class, this is what happens when you tell him what to say. He becomes lazy."
I then called on another kid I knew to always receive answers from the class and his responses were as nonsensical as Yao's. Another student gone rotten because of laziness.
The last two classes were legend as usual, but I felt bad I couldn't really sing with them. The Jimmy/Pete class tried to teach me a Chinese song, then I finally had to cut class short because I desperately needed to urinate, full of tea and water that I was.
The crew had our usual sheep place la zi ji ding, then we watched the gunfight ballet of John Woo's Hong Kong crime classic "Hard Boiled." I nodded off a little during it, courtesy of the hot toddy soporifica.
The first class of the day started poorly. One of the bad kids had locked the door on me as I approached. I went in through the back door, took my position at the pulpit. The bell rang and those few bad students (one of which I'm certain did the door-locking) took off for the WC. I locked them out, wrote on the board 9:50-10:00 WC time, 10:00-10:45 Class time. The students snickered at it during eye exercises. The bad kids soon beat on the doors and milled about outside. I instructed the other students not to let them in.
Halfway through the lesson, the three came back with a teacher. She explained there was a mistake that they had all cleared up. "Oh really?" I said. "They explained that they left for the WC when the bell rang and class began?" I pointed at what I had written on the board and she nodded, bawled them out in Chinese, the left. I hissed for them to sit.
I called on Yao to tell me why he liked and disliked summer. His answers: "I like summer because...(looked around)...play basketball. I do not like summer because....(looked around)...book." I repeated what he had said, shook my head. "That makes no sense. You are a bad student. Class, this is what happens when you tell him what to say. He becomes lazy."
I then called on another kid I knew to always receive answers from the class and his responses were as nonsensical as Yao's. Another student gone rotten because of laziness.
The last two classes were legend as usual, but I felt bad I couldn't really sing with them. The Jimmy/Pete class tried to teach me a Chinese song, then I finally had to cut class short because I desperately needed to urinate, full of tea and water that I was.
The crew had our usual sheep place la zi ji ding, then we watched the gunfight ballet of John Woo's Hong Kong crime classic "Hard Boiled." I nodded off a little during it, courtesy of the hot toddy soporifica.
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[ posted by mcdeviltoast @ 4/22/2005 09:12:00 PM ]
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