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[Nierlisse]

Anyone else have any demon hellspawn show up in your classroom today? I'm told it's because of the rain...makes sense, but I really don't appreciate them jumping out at me, waving their million little legs and uttering satanic curses while I'm trying to work my printer. I'm pretty sure the beast was gnashing its teeth too but I didn't want to get close enough to find out. I scooped it up in a dustbin and threw it outside to fend for itself. The 3-4 tiny ones I've come across today, I just smush, but this one was too big to kill. So far I've only found them on the floor but it's only a matter of time before one ends up trekking across my keyboard or TV and the rest of the school comes running because of my screams.

I told a co-teacher about it and she said that sometimes in the country, snakes wander into classrooms. I would actually prefer the snake.

[Katchafire]

I was going to agree with you until I realised that you weren't talking about students, you were actually talking about bugs.
It seems like the rain has turned one or two of my normally, well behaved students into complete and utter 's today!

[harlowethrombey]

lol, I thought it was the kids, too.

Are these giant, mutant bugs? Cause that's what I remember of summertime in Japan. Monsters the size of toy poodles that liked to shriek from the bushes and/or jump into my face when I walked up the stairs.

The rain has seemed to be some sort of sleeping pill for my kids, I couldnt even keep some of them awake with the promise of candy if they answered the review questions correctly.

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[Nierlisse]

[Rusty Shackleford]

Yeah, what's going on? I don't know about bugs but the students have been shocking today. Alternating between zombification and little shites.

[DCJames]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Ruraljuror]

[Nierlisse]

[Milwaukiedave]

When I read the title of the thread I really thought you were talking about your students. LOL

Actually after I finished my second freshman conversation class this morning and the students were filing out of the classroom, one of the students said, "oh, my god" (or something to that degree) and then a bunch of them started to gather around a desk. One of the students noticed a big ugly hairy spider. This had to one of the biggest spiders I've seen in my life.

After the students left, I took out my cell phone and was trying to get some pictures of it (very carefully) hoping I could figure out what kind of spider it was. Unfortunately, the damn spider didn't want to cooperate and stayed on the part of the desk that was darker which made getting a good picture difficult. Personally I wasn't about to do anything to piss it off. In the end, I carefully picked the desk up and took the desk outside and the spider jumped off and made a run for it. I wish I knew how to get the pictures off my cell and post them because "he" was a big sucker.

[Katchafire]

[bluelake]

It's a good thing I finished my coffee before reading the OP, otherwise it would have been sprayed all over the screen. Anyone who did not think the OP was talking about students raise your hand... Switch between the mental image of a student and millipede (or whatever) while reading the OP--thanks, that made my day.

Yeah, they have some strange ones here (millipedes that is). The Korean legend is that if one comes to you it means you will come into money. Personally, no matter what the loss of fortune is, I squash 'em. They are free to "[wave] their million little legs and [utter] satanic curses" all they want outside, but once they come into my domain, they are a smudge mark.

Milwaukiedave, there are some huge spiders here in Korea. There is one I saw on a trip to Jeonju that looked nearly fist-sized. I wish I could have taken a good pic of it, but it pulled in its legs in a dark area of a roof. A friend of mine, I think, got a pic of it; I'll have to check.