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Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:06 am Post subject: Presents from students!

Ura! Great time of year to teach adults. Fantastic gifts! Ura!!! Here look at what I've been given so far:

Beluga vodka

Russki Standart vodka (x2)

Putinka vodka (nobody's favourite any longer...)

Pyat Ozer vodka

Riga Balsams

Armenian cognac

Edelweiss snapps

Moldavian cognac

Dagistan brandy

Sovietski champagne

That should keep me going for one of the evenings. See! It pays to 'personalise' lessons for the students. "Sasha has been drinking Beluga vodka for 35 years / since birth..." " Sasha doesn't mind Russki standart, but he prefers Pyat Ozer." " Sasha is going to drink 2 litres of Armenian Cognac over the holidays." etc. etc.

So? Anybody else got some great goodies?

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I got a very trendy (and timely) warm scarf
and an invitation to visit a student in Tokyo
and 2 bottles of champagne
and so far 6 cups of mulled wine.

Not bad considering that I only have a very few students these days (I'm at almost 100% with the above). Most of mine have neither names nor faces these days, sadly. They're just a whirl of big groups which produce lots and lots of papers for marking; better I don't know exactly who wrote each one
as the outcomes are fairly high stakes and I can be more objective this way.

I doubt anyone's going to beat Sasha's haul, though!!
And it's not even Christmas yet in Russia:-)

contented · Joined: 17 Oct 2011 Posts: 136 Location: اسطنبول

Sasha,
I hope you find some friends to share all that vodka with. Smile

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Contented, my 90-year-old granny could have got through that lot in just a couple of days. That's before her demise, of course, which was (perhaps surprisingly) not connected in any way to liver disease!! This granny was not from the Baptist missionary side of my family Cool

contented · Joined: 17 Oct 2011 Posts: 136 Location: اسطنبول

Hmmm....Spiral78 got champagne and so did Sasha, hmmmmm.... What kind of students are you teaching?

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

My champagne-givers are an oil exec and a small group of government employees. Well-heeled and highly civilised Very Happy

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Hic so are mine! But it is one and the same present-giver, hic! No matter how many people I actually see by the end of the night hic hic! Say what you want about utterly corrupt oil oligarchs/duma members, but they give a decent present hic!

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Presents from students!

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:12 pm Post subject:

My students are pretty smart! They know me and my poisons well.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

Forgot one: Canti Asti. Urrrrrrraaaaaaa!

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I won't comment on how I feel about students giving alcohol (and so much) to a teacher, respected or otherwise. My own students are pretty broke, and they rarely give anything. One Korean girl will undoubtedly return from her homeland and give some tea, which is my "poison".

In previous years, my adult students have thrown a party instead. Some old grandma students gave me winter hats or scarves.

Basically, I don't expect anything. Instead, I give. My student workers in our resource center get cookies or something from me every year as a show of appreciation.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject:

Dear Glenski,

Your way of "not commenting" is itself a comment. I give, too - but I don't talk about it (Oops, just did - sorry.)

Regards,
John

markcmc · Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 262 Location: Taiwan

Chocolate coins & candy walking sticks.

Guerciotti · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:06 am Post subject:

I got a rock.

Cyberkada · Joined: 04 Dec 2011 Posts: 306 Location: Xi'an, China