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[Pak Yu Man]

I was in summer camp. All my clothes were dirty so I put on an old pir of pants I hadn't worn for a while.

It was an activity class (all boys) so we all made paper nun-chucks (san-jul-gong or whatever).

So I'm done first I'm swinging mine around and then go into my stance....bend at the knees and stick your ass out.

Well my pants were a little too tight and rip. My plants split from the bottom of my zipper all the way up my ass.

MAn people were teasing about that for the rest of the camp.

[noraleen]

Every now and then I'll call a kid Mister [name] to get their attention in class. Well, there's a kid named Darth Vader in one of my classes. Keep in mind this is a class full of grade 9's, most of which recently returned from living abroad for a couple of years - so they're fairly in tune with "dirty" vocabulary. Anyhow, one day, while teaching, I tried to get his attention and said "Mister Vader!".

Big mistake. He thought I said Mastur bater. He started laughing, but he was the only one. Then, he looked up at me and said, "Did you just call me MASTUR BATER?!" Well, that caused an uproar of laughter amongst most of the boys in the class, as well as me.

Red faced, and trying my best not to laugh, I continued on with the lesson. I asked another student to read the TOEFL question. He read it as follows, "Some people prefer things made by machines, while others prefer things made by hand. Which do you prefer, things made by machine, or things made by hand?" (all while doing the one hand mastur bating motion).

To make matters worse, a smarta ss in the class - who clearly knew what the word meant - said to me, "Teacher, what does mastur bater mean? Can you show us? Can you draw a picture?"

I'll never live that one down.

[KumaraKitty]

I was teaching a role play to my elementary kids " How often do you eat ice-cream?". I was encouraging my students to change it, "How often do you play soccer, study english, etc." One sweet lil' girl gets up and asks me in all seriousness " How often do you love men?" At that point I turned beet red and tried to find an answer. My kids were confused as to why I didn't answer and why I was now flaming red.
The other good one was in the middle of the Winter. I get sleepy when I'm cold and I was rambling on teaching and I fell into sort of a dream/trance. I was in front of a class of 10 first-graders, and I clearly remembered dreaming I was in a bar confronting my ex-BF. I shouted "Ass-h0le!" and next thing I snapped awake to have 10 pairs of lil' eyes staring at me in utter confusion. "Apple! APPLE!" was my hasty cover. Next break I ran down to the coffee shop for a double shot of espresso. Thank god I taught alone!

[Qinella]

[animalbirdfish]

[Hotpants]

heck, ever since I've started eating kimchi, it gives me terrible gas!!!! I battle every class trying to hold it in!!!!! letting out a loud fart in class would be terrible. although i often hear people in the street letting rip quite openly. perhaps it's not such a big deal here.

so...you make nunchaku in summer camp class??? what sort of english education is that???????

[coolsage]

I'm gratified to see that I'm not the only one with a flatulence tale. Back in the day when I was working hagwon, I dashed home for a quick lunch of rice and a three-minute boil-in-the-bag curry. It was a hot day, and a windowless room containing ten nine-year-old girls is no place to place in which to lose a little pressure. But the inevitable occurred, and in mid-lesson, I saw their little eyes begin to water. Finally, as a group they bolted for the door, and as the last one left, I heard her say: "Oh, teacher! We trusted you!" And that was my best class. and I never got them back again.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

Once, when I was teaching a class of mostly girls, I heard one of the students say something in Korean. I only half-heard what was said, but one word sounded like a word that I had vague recollections of having heard once before, although I had, for the moment, completely forgotten what it meant. So, like an idiot, I started murmuring the word to myself over and over again, in the hope of dislodging the word from where it was stuck in my memory. 고자... 고자... I muttered again and again, all while the students were eagerly listening.

The, when I suddenly remembered what the word meant, I went bright red, whereupon all the students started asking, "Teacher, what does 고자 mean?" The only answer I could give them was "I can't tell you!! And for God's sake, don't tell your parents!!!" They kept asking that question for months afterwards, and I've never used any Korean in the classroom again, unless I'm positive I know what it means.

[xeno439]

[OiGirl]

[OiGirl]

[denverdeath]

You say, "What do you think of the Takeshima issue?" All the kids say, "Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul!" Think it means, "Yeah, whatever." Kind of like, "Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhl!"

[steroidmaximus]

My last Uni job, teaching sophmore writing, 9:00 am class. I'm dressed in a nice Henry Cotton suit, freshly ironed shirt and tie, buffed shoes, writing some pointers on the board, feeling all pimped out. For some reason, everyone is giggling; I check what I've written to make sure there aren't any glaring mistakes, but all is well. After class, I'm walking into the office when a coworker pulls a big glob of rice off my back, left there when my 10 month old daughter hugged my on my way out the door. . .

[poet13]

i have a feeling....
that I may have commited a new most embarrassing moment, but not sure.
Does anybody know what RCcola is? And what is the 10% with 6% underneath on the large plastic bottle? Pending further information and confirmation of my suspicions, I will post regarding a recent occurence.
BTW, the stuff tastes NASTY!

[pet lover]