"Hm, I'm not sure that's a word. Can you say it in a sentence?"
Student: "I don't know what it means! My friend said me, 'lole' one time."
"Well when was your friend saying this to you?"
Student: "After I tell him a yoke! (joke)"
"OOOOOOOOOH! Do you mean, LOL? Hahaha! LOL are the first letters of the phrase 'laugh out loud,' like what you do when something is really funny."
Student: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I get it now."
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"SILENCE! You must do as I say!" (said by my tutee, directed at the students playing violins and distracting him from his work, in a creepy, quiet voice)
Me: "Whoa, calm down dude. You sound like Voldemort!"
"Voldemort! You should not say his name! You know, Voldemort his dad was name Voldemort. And his dad Voldemort, and his Voldemort, Voldemort, Voldemort, and the HIS dad was name Salchicha*, and then his dad name was Voldemort again. Its crazy!"
*Salchicha, in Spanish, means... sausage. Hilarious.
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"Okay who remembers the name of the form of government we have here in Guatemala and in the United States?"
Class: ...silence...
"Remember it has three branches? And it starts with the letter D?"
Student: "DISGUSTING!"
"Hm, well, not quite but good guess. De mock rah see!"
Class: "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
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After studying abundance and scarcity in economics, I had my students for homework make a list of 5 things in their house that were scarce and five things that were abundant. This was a list I received from one of the little guys...
Items that are ABUNDANT:
1. Rice
2. Toilet Paper
3. Clothes
4. Pencils
5. Love <--- WOW. Just, wow :)
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That's all for this edition of "Funny Things Said by Small People" but stay tuned. As the school year is coming to an end (tear), I will be trying to hold on to all these sweet moments and writing them down more frequently.
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