Little Things

There are so many little random things that happen that make me laugh.  Last week, I was teaching a class of seven-year-olds and in the middle of class, out of nowhere, one student takes my hand, smells my hand and then goes "Teacher, you Ramyan eating?"  And I was just like, "how the fuck did you know that?"  Astounding.  She smelled my hand and then was able to infer that I had eaten Ramen at some point that day. 

One class particularly cracks me up.  They are an older class - maybe about 10-years-old.  There are nine boys and three girls.  The boys like to sing so a couple weeks ago I brought in the Bear Hunt song.  I so wish I could convey the melody through the computer, it's the best part.  "We're going on a bear hunt, we're gonna catch a big one, what a beautiful day, we're not scared.  Uh-Oh a forest, a dark scary forest. WE CAN'T GO OVER IT!  WE CAN'T GO UNDER IT!  OH NO!!  WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT!!!" and so on and so forth.  Now everyday I teach them, right in the middle of my lesson they will break into the Bear Hunt song.  Adrian will provide the beat and Kevin will conduct the others.  It's so funny.  It's really disruptive to my class and we rarely get work done but every time they do it I can't yell because I'm laughing so hard.  It's impossible.

Some less funny, more disturbing moments are times like last Saturday when I was walking around and an old man walked over to me and just hard-core smacked my ass.  What the hell.  I was so shocked by it I just turned and looked at him with a puzzled face and then walked away.  I was too taken aback.  What do you do in that situation?

The other day at the BBQ, Eric was cooking tree leaves over the grill and so as a joke I said "Oo leaves, delicious!" so he said "Really Teacher?  You eat?"  So I said "Yeah of course!" because I'm a totally idiot and I don't know where to draw the line.  Long story short, I ate some leaves.

The leaves, however questionable are nothing of a health risk compared to raw beef.  Not just raw beef; raw beef with raw egg mixed in.  I'm a vegetarian, but I tried some of the raw beef/raw egg combination just for the hell of it.  It actually tastes really good, but damn if I want to voluntarily risk serious diseases due to uncooked meat.  Never again.