A Funny Thing Happened at Work the Other Day...

So, as I sit here eating Skippy peanut butter from the jar, I'd like to share a few anecdotes from this morning's lesson. We've been discussing controversial topics in class, i.e. gun control and abortion, as a means for my students to learn how to better express their opinions and beliefs. While some students offered genuinely well-spoken insight, others....not so much. A group of my Tibetan boys had this to say on the topic of nuclear weapons:

"We have them. In Tibet. We have two. They are this big (stretching his arms out)... And it's a secret."

This was shortly followed by another male student, screaming the lyrics to an American pop song, which came out as:

"Somebody hit the rights!"

I gave him a stern look, began to sing the actual lyrics in my head, and walked away. Almost immediately my back was greeted with the serenade:

"I wanna hooold you!"

It's at that point that I began to hope they really had no idea what they were saying.

I finally splurged at the 'gourmet' supermarket and bought some Frosted Flakes...only to find out that my stomach reeeally doesn't like UHT milk.

My day took a turn for the worse when the previously promising grey sky turned sunny...I may have to attend English Corner after all.

And now for something completely different, a bit of good news... I can hardly contain my excitement, and it's all I can do to refrain from dancing about my classrooms all day, but I finally have a one-way ticket back to America on July 30th. Hallelujah! I'm sorry, did I sound overly eager to flee this country? Ooops.