- beer
- boss
- raining
- tom (dad shout out!)*
- kate (sister shout out!)*
- stamp (this is a standard name)
- porn
- golf
22.5.10
raise your hand when i call your name
here are some student nicknames on my rosters this year:
20.5.10
this is the year i'm gonna do it!
i've got lots of tutoring after school this semester. this is excellent news for me because one of my laments about my life in suphan last quarter was that i wasn't busy enough. you guys know me--i like to be busy with tons of stuff all the time. i like when i think that one free hour in the day is a lot.
i get the feeling the students have been bitten by that ambitious bug that always comes around at the beginning of the year. "this year i'm finally gonna learn english! i better get a tutor!" lol. we'll see how long they stay interested for.
btw, i'm teaching the most beautiful lady boy this quarter. he's adorable. he lingered after class today to ask how my summer was. awwwww.
oh, and a bangkok/thailand protest update: the red shirts threw up the white flag last night. the government imposed a curfew from 8 pm last night to 6 am this morning, which essentially means anyone on the street can be arrested/turns the streets into a war zone. red shirts (i think it's mostly all red shirts) are setting a lot of stuff on fire around the city, including central world, which is one of bangkok's hugest malls. the mall's partially collapsed now. i have no idea when the city'll be back to normal and all of this stuff will be over...i would've thought that the surrender last night would've indicated some sort of pathway to peace, but apparently not. there've been some protests and arsonists in the north and in the east, but suphan's still thankfully violence-free.
i get the feeling the students have been bitten by that ambitious bug that always comes around at the beginning of the year. "this year i'm finally gonna learn english! i better get a tutor!" lol. we'll see how long they stay interested for.
btw, i'm teaching the most beautiful lady boy this quarter. he's adorable. he lingered after class today to ask how my summer was. awwwww.
oh, and a bangkok/thailand protest update: the red shirts threw up the white flag last night. the government imposed a curfew from 8 pm last night to 6 am this morning, which essentially means anyone on the street can be arrested/turns the streets into a war zone. red shirts (i think it's mostly all red shirts) are setting a lot of stuff on fire around the city, including central world, which is one of bangkok's hugest malls. the mall's partially collapsed now. i have no idea when the city'll be back to normal and all of this stuff will be over...i would've thought that the surrender last night would've indicated some sort of pathway to peace, but apparently not. there've been some protests and arsonists in the north and in the east, but suphan's still thankfully violence-free.
18.5.10
teachaaaaaa
i've been wearing my teacher nicki hat for two days now and i'm already relishing in the joy/hilarity/excellentness of teaching again. i'm teaching the 11th and 12th graders this semester (i had 9th and 10th graders last semester, but of course you remembered that, attentive reader), so since the kids have moved up a grade since we last saw them--this was, after all, summer vacation we were just on--i still have my former 10th graders, now as 11th graders. when i walked into a couple of my favorite classes, we all squealed in excitement to see each other again. "nickiiiii!!!" some of them shouted.
i don't think everyone's excited to see teacher nicki again, though. i also heard a couple of the "oh, nicki..." utterances, too. lol. too bad, so sad.
ANYWAY, of course i have some hilarious stories for you.
so in the class of smart 12th graders, instead of the typical "what did you do over summer?" activity, i decided i'd make a legit effort to learn these kids' names. i asked them to write their name and one word that described them on the board, and i took a picture of the student with the self-made label. welllll, since they're the ambitious nerdy types, they weren't satisfied with the standard quiet/funny/friendly/lazy...they got out their dictionaries and got creative.
one boy wrote "sexy" for his word, which sent the class into riotous laughter. another girl came up and wrote "chocolate." "what does it mean to be chocolate?" i asked. "my skin," she said, and pointed to her incredibly-not-chocolate skin. the class laughed. "excuse me," i said, hands on my hips, "but you had teacher tash [who is actually black] last quarter. you know what chocolate skin is."
i was paying attention to another kid when i hear a girl in the front row spelling a word for her friend. "H-I-T-L-E-R."
"ARE YOU SPELLING HITLER?!" she and her friends giggle and say yeah, is it right?
"you mean hitler, like SIT DOWNNNNNN!!!!!" i shout at the class, heiling and demanding everyone to put their asses in their seats. this girl at the front, the one who's "like hitler," just starts cracking up and hunches her shoulders in that geeky, sort of shy way. totally un-hitler-like. "well, if you're gonna write hitler, you have to heil."
i don't think everyone's excited to see teacher nicki again, though. i also heard a couple of the "oh, nicki..." utterances, too. lol. too bad, so sad.
ANYWAY, of course i have some hilarious stories for you.
so in the class of smart 12th graders, instead of the typical "what did you do over summer?" activity, i decided i'd make a legit effort to learn these kids' names. i asked them to write their name and one word that described them on the board, and i took a picture of the student with the self-made label. welllll, since they're the ambitious nerdy types, they weren't satisfied with the standard quiet/funny/friendly/lazy...they got out their dictionaries and got creative.
one boy wrote "sexy" for his word, which sent the class into riotous laughter. another girl came up and wrote "chocolate." "what does it mean to be chocolate?" i asked. "my skin," she said, and pointed to her incredibly-not-chocolate skin. the class laughed. "excuse me," i said, hands on my hips, "but you had teacher tash [who is actually black] last quarter. you know what chocolate skin is."
i was paying attention to another kid when i hear a girl in the front row spelling a word for her friend. "H-I-T-L-E-R."
"ARE YOU SPELLING HITLER?!" she and her friends giggle and say yeah, is it right?
"you mean hitler, like SIT DOWNNNNNN!!!!!" i shout at the class, heiling and demanding everyone to put their asses in their seats. this girl at the front, the one who's "like hitler," just starts cracking up and hunches her shoulders in that geeky, sort of shy way. totally un-hitler-like. "well, if you're gonna write hitler, you have to heil."
16.5.10
running along the river
i always see the same old man running along the river when i go in the evening. he's tall and lanky, always wearing a white shirt and some black swishy pants. he salutes me with a big grin, like "hey, white girl, nice to see you running again!" today an old woman clapped enthusiastically and gave me a big thumbs up. another pair of guys smoking cigarettes and looking weathered gave me a couple thumbs up, too.
ALSO, i bought something that has improved my running ten fold: a headband. like from the 80s. look at it!
yes, i've legitimately worn this every day since i got it five days ago. HOW MUCH DO I RULE?!
ALSO, i bought something that has improved my running ten fold: a headband. like from the 80s. look at it!
yes, i've legitimately worn this every day since i got it five days ago. HOW MUCH DO I RULE?!
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