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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

In the west, by tradition, a student that wants to curry favor with a teacher gives him/her an apple (hence the term "apple polisher" for you Korean Immigration plants who need to improve their English instead of trying to suss out all us ESL'ers working with fake degrees). Anyway, the other day my student, Sally, gave me a potato. Hrm. She seemed rather disturbed when I didn't eat it right away ("hey, it's going to take me some time to find sour cream and bacon bits!")

Something about it reminds me of the running potato bit in Jabberwocky.

Dennis: I keep your potato!

(Korean Immigration plants: you'll never grasp the humor of Monty Python)

Anyway, I dread the day one of my students tries to give me a baby chick. A friend had a student trying to give him one of those. These vultures disguised as humans apparently hang out of hagwons and schools and sell kids these chicks. The kids buy them because they're cute and then the poor little things die a few days later because a 10 year old Korean kid has no idea how or long term desire to raise a chicken in an apartment.

fidel · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Location: North Shore NZ

who you are call plant? Me be reil Englishee teacher me be!

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Kids used to bring me sweet potatoes all the time and I hate them. I never once accepted one, I just said no thanks. I have however eaten five or six oranges in a day seldom times.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Yeah, man. Way out in the country, a village school. They had a time of year when they roasted koguma/sweet potato in tinfoil in a campfire and hand them out; was it autumn? Something like that. So they'd around school.

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Free World would be thrilled to get a sweet potato from any one of his students. He'd be even happier if they all acted on a tip and each brought him a sweet potato on the same day.

Free World · Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Drake Hotel

fucking disgusting!

I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

Yes I have gotten a sweet potato from a student. Nothing wrong with that, just a little different is all.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

A potato is a tuber which grows in the ground. Ground equals earth. Earth equals nature. Wiccans worship nature. Therefore she's a witch.

Sir Belvedere: "What makes you think she's a witch?"
Peasant: "Why, she gave me a potato and she turned me into a neut!"
Sir Belvedere: "A NEUT!"
Peasant: "I...I got better." Very Happy

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I've got sweet potatoes a few times. Not the tastiest things but it's still the thought.

One of my students is apparently trying to grow a potato plant suspended over a cup of water on the window sil in her homeroom. Other times I see her carrying around the patato and cup of water. I suppose there could be worse hobbies.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

A sweet potato with a nice set of roots in nothing but tapwater can set out beautiful leafy vines meters long that can live for years. Interesting houseplant.

AdamH · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:40 am Post subject:

I got crabs from a student once.

Hans Blix · Joined: 31 Mar 2005

i once got presented with a chip pinched between two glistening-with-slobber fingers. and i ate it because there was no way out. sometimes you have to live a little.