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kermo

I showed up to work today haggard and paranoid, having endured a week full of the worst luck I have ever seen. Laceration (with accompanying hospital bills), near-electrocution, stranded in Osaka on a visa-run, flooded apartment, and it just gets worse from there. The stress is getting to me so I've got stomach pain and I look like death.

I drew a little picture of my pale self, and wrote "Kermo is sick today. Please be nice to her."

They weren't more docile or hard-working-- in fact, things got very very silly. I found myself laughing so many times today. Maybe it's just the creeping hysteria, but ...

Thank you Violet, for making faces at me like a carp while other kids are reading aloud.

Thank you Paul and Noah for changing all the words you read to their polar opposites, i.e.,
"That's a great-->terrible idea. I think you're making/breaking the right/left choice."
"I've been considering _____ for a long/short time now. I thought about doing it a few years/seconds ago."

Thank you Emma for winning the Make-me-laugh" game (to which I have to reply with the same word and the students come up with novel questions) by simply asking "What's your problem?" (I think the answer was my own name.)

Thank you Scott, for adding the words "...before they died" to random phrases read by other students.

Bless your weird little hearts.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

Students can be great. I've got some class acts that are great and I'm going to really miss them whenI go on holiday in a few days.

My favourites (not that a teacher should have favourites, me bad) are my little 'Laurel and Hardy' guys! They make me laugh every class. They're the funniest little bastards ever.

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

That's why we teach, and why we teach well.

Money does help.

kermo · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:07 am Post subject:

More good laughs from marking a reading comprehension test:

Question: What are most octagonal houses used for today?
Answer: YES (crossed out), NO (crossed out) YES

Question: What a paragraph describing Orson Fowler's octagonal house. Include what it was made of, how many stories it had, what he wanted the house to be, and what happened to it.
Answer: Orson Fowler's house was made of candy, it has 6 stories, he wanted the house to be good place, into the house, thre were very funny happends.

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

kermo

kermo · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:12 am Post subject:

Yay for two peril-free days in a row! My ordeal seems to be over for now.

Anyway, one of my kiddies had me giggling in horror at a paragraph she wrote for
"If I had a time machine..."

This girl is quiet, studious, pretty and altogether without a sense of humour as far as I was concerned. However, she confided:

"If I had a time machine, the first place I would go would be man's shower room.
It's not strange. ��
I just want to see what is different in man's shower room."

kermo · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

I was teaching my kids the little song about a woman who swallows a fly. She follows it up with a spider, but having ingested a spider, she then inhales a bird, hoping to catch the spider, and so far.
I asked the children: What catches a bird?
A snake!
Yes, and...
A cat!
Okay! Now, what catches a cat?
A wolf! A monster!
Something smaller.
A fox! A dog!
Right. A dog.
Teacher! A dog doesn't eat cat. Only chase!
Errrr.... yes, well, this lady just wants to catch the cat. Now, what chases a dog?

A Korean person!

Yes, but I can't think of anything that rhymes with "Korean."

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

It's definitely the kids that make teaching a worthwhile experience 99% of the time. Hope things turn around for you Kermo. Best of luck. Smile