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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:04:07 +0000
dear mom and dad,

hi! im so glad to hear teddy is recycling! most foreigners complain, but i really love the separation of trash here. if someone catches you at the dumpster without having separated your trash, they call you on it! we have to separate food trash, plastics, paper, cans, bottles, and regular trash. i find it very progressive.

i had the day off and used it to do a little more prep, made a grade list thingy for each class so that i can see who i ought to pay special attention to in class (ie: who's getting all Fs.)

i taught classes yesterday. every class we have a section called "applied listening," where the students act out a skit. We listen to the script while they try to transcribe the dialogue, and then they are to add extra dialogue and actions and be as creative as they can. some of the classes are really fun, especially the younger ones b/c they use funny voices and add all kinds of goofy stuff and even trade clothes to try and make a sort of costume. the middle schoolers are of course way too cool for all that.

i do have one particular class of middle schoolers that are a lot of fun, perhaps b/c it's on a saturday. sometimes they ask me if a certain phrase or word is appropriate when they're adding to the script. "Sister Sha, can we say, "Stupid?" Sister Sha, can we say Jerk? Sister Sha, can we say "Shut up?" this one little boy in my saturday class, he's 14 or so but looks around 11, very cute, very smart and very much a smart ass. he ALWAYS asks me about bad words!

"Sister Sha, can we say Shit?"
me: No.and dont use that word in class."
Sister Sha can we say Asshole?"
me: No, absolutely not.
"but asshole just means stupid."
me:"Johnny, who on earth is teaching you all these words?!"
"a filipino student."
little fucker! :)