tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post618775881438298742..comments2023-09-16T19:12:43.147+09:00Comments on The Hired Tongue: Meet My StudentsJoe Streckerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13848690885706346774noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-46692308918820386822006-12-22T03:17:00.000+09:002006-12-22T03:17:00.000+09:00I love anonymity. You should write a book. I alw...I love anonymity. You should write a book. I always ruin it with grammatical errors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-41321445043008049152006-12-20T14:58:00.000+09:002006-12-20T14:58:00.000+09:00Seriously, Eric - who has ever used "tossing balls...Seriously, Eric - who has ever used "tossing balls" as slang for anything? The other night the power went out and we were playing Star Wars Monopoly by candlelight and Aren was harassing me for paying him in ones and fives saying that he wasn't sure he wanted my waded up stripper bills. Pete suggested that maybe they were meth bills (I forget why). Somehow this lead to me saying something about meth-lined g-strings and then proclaiming, "You ain't never been high til you been <i>cooter high</i>!" Now "cooter high" is slang one can really get behind!Sydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360198761136198922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-66869955506344234432006-12-19T02:29:00.000+09:002006-12-19T02:29:00.000+09:00"Now, I've got lots of games in my kids classes th..."Now, I've got lots of games in my kids classes that involve tossing balls" - ummm... What kind of teacher are you, Llama? Seriously, what's next, a little friendly salad-making for the kiddies?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04307182227850370924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-89922249808504626872006-12-19T01:40:00.000+09:002006-12-19T01:40:00.000+09:00Now I wish I'd made better strides breaking into t...Now I wish I'd made better strides breaking into the Masters in Teachering English as a Second Language clique at GU! Then I would have someone whose advice I/you could ask about such pedagogical issues. Unfortunately, it was an impenetrable clique the likes of which I've only ever read about prior to that experience. However, if you do have any questions, I would be happy to pass them along to people I know in the Lx Dept. If they don't know, they would at least be able to ask someone there who would know. : )Sydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360198761136198922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-68180331889126310152006-12-18T21:15:00.000+09:002006-12-18T21:15:00.000+09:00oh, but if you tell them you are learning Japanese...oh, but if you tell them you are learning Japanese you miss the wonderful moments when you understand what they said but they don't know it... and even better, the moment when you divulge that you have understood everything they said, and they rack their brains for what else they may have said in the last year that they said with out thinking you could understand.<br /><br />on another note, I think you need to learn an English word that might help you with your kids classes<br /><br />boundaries. it has three syllables, let's clap and say it together, very good now.<br />this is something that they cannot cross and you will stop class, bring in the manager and possibly kill them for (or make them think you will). your boundaries are probably different than mine. once you establish what they are and really mean it, life gets easier.<br /><br />good luck. gambatte!kbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07668413343349859041noreply@blogger.com