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school bits
May. 9th, 2006 12:40 pmVacation is over, and it's back to work. And all the work I intended to get done over the break and didn't is staring at me in a large pile. But there's only weight weeks left in the semester, so nothing seems too daunting. Plus, the school has some sort of Japanese machine that produces fresh-ground espresso (you can even watch it grind the beans), and even though the copy machines are often broken for days at a time, the coffee machine has never been broken longer than an afternoon.
A pair of borrowed school scissors and a variety of clips have succeeded in reducing my haircut to an acceptable level of silliness. The kids' reactions have also been suitably gratifying. The youngest Roosters just look at me and mime cutting their hair while Rela shouted, "Who are you?!" But the best reaction came from one of my local stream kids, a very strange girl in 1f. After I detached her from my leg, then detached her from my waist, then detached her from my arm, she stepped back, pointed at my head and exclaimed, "You cut the grass!" It turns out they've been learning all about household chores lately.
I think I've said before that my Rooster class is the weirdest bunch of kids I've ever met. I don't think any of them have anything clinically wrong with them; they're just weird. The newest example is Jennifer the budding yaoi fangirl. I asked the kids to write a word, then draw a picture of it- busywork so I could test each kid's pronunciation individually. Jennifer, one of the best students in the class, came up to me, asked me how to spell fish, then walked away. Ten minutes later she came back with a picture of two fish, one labeled "Peter" and "man" and the other labeled "Joe" and "man". The fish were kissing, and just to make sure we got that point, there was another arrow pointing to their mouths and labeled "kiss". She gleefully pointed this out to me, then insisted that I keep it flipped over in my bin so no one else could see it. She spent the rest of the period glancing at me, giggling, and making shushing motions. Six years old and already making doujin. Her parents must be proud.
A pair of borrowed school scissors and a variety of clips have succeeded in reducing my haircut to an acceptable level of silliness. The kids' reactions have also been suitably gratifying. The youngest Roosters just look at me and mime cutting their hair while Rela shouted, "Who are you?!" But the best reaction came from one of my local stream kids, a very strange girl in 1f. After I detached her from my leg, then detached her from my waist, then detached her from my arm, she stepped back, pointed at my head and exclaimed, "You cut the grass!" It turns out they've been learning all about household chores lately.
I think I've said before that my Rooster class is the weirdest bunch of kids I've ever met. I don't think any of them have anything clinically wrong with them; they're just weird. The newest example is Jennifer the budding yaoi fangirl. I asked the kids to write a word, then draw a picture of it- busywork so I could test each kid's pronunciation individually. Jennifer, one of the best students in the class, came up to me, asked me how to spell fish, then walked away. Ten minutes later she came back with a picture of two fish, one labeled "Peter" and "man" and the other labeled "Joe" and "man". The fish were kissing, and just to make sure we got that point, there was another arrow pointing to their mouths and labeled "kiss". She gleefully pointed this out to me, then insisted that I keep it flipped over in my bin so no one else could see it. She spent the rest of the period glancing at me, giggling, and making shushing motions. Six years old and already making doujin. Her parents must be proud.