Friday, 3 December 2010

at least my job is intellectually stimulating....

scenario:

in the classroom with twelve hormone-charged teenagers... the task at hand is to read, and complete a questionnaire, "how confident are you"... the students are complaining that the situations proposed in the questionnaire are a little lame... i can't help but agree with them... the murmur of "me aburro" grows ever louder...

when we have finally cajoled, finished, corrected and evaluated our scores to discover how "confident" we are, i propose a sweetener.. how about each group writes their own "how confident are you?" situation, with the corresponding a, b or c answers... the students settle down to this with enthusiasm...

i am suspicious.... teenagers, 5.00pm english class and enthusiasm are not words that collocate easily in my mind... i am even more suspicious when the group of boys, who "hate" everything, appear to be working hard (instead of talking) and even, dare i say, appear to be enjoying it...

my suspicions are not unfounded... when their turn comes, the boys, with great aplomb, deliver their masterpiece...

You are in the changing room at school with no clothes (on) and a girl enters in.. Do you:

a. fuck the girl?

b. run out with no clothes (on)? or

c. show her your cock?


i suspect they were trying to shock me.... little do they know....

6 whaddayareckon:

Mother Theresa 4 December 2010 11:11  

Lol. So, what did you say? And I see they've been learning some of the more "important" words in English. Am I ever glad my kids are girls. :D

chris,  4 December 2010 14:46  

I see you have come across the age old problem of "What is on an adolescent boy's mind". In many cases adolescence lasts until you are 80. Wan't it you who once told me the tale about an exercise which asked, "If you could be an animal, what animal would you be?

Pueblo girl 5 December 2010 01:53  

I so don't miss teaching :)

mondraussie 5 December 2010 19:35  

mother theresa: I asked them which option they would choose... Not surprisingly they all chickened out and picked b. !!

chris: yes i'm well aware that adolescence lasts to about 80 in many cases! And no, the animal story, I don't think it was me?!

pg: yes... well teenagers are a new experience for me... can't say i'm loving it!!

Simon 6 December 2010 11:18  

Presumably if the girl walks in and sees him naked, option c is superfluous? Or are they proposing a more detailed inspection?

mondraussie 6 December 2010 21:37  

simon: you're a man, cast your mind back to your 14yo self and you tell me!! i suspect that option c proposes a more detailed inspection, but what would i know??!!

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