Sugoi Gaijin

Holy crap, my students say the funniest things sometimes. Today I had to deal with the Ninensei…again…they’re the most loud and rambunctious group. They never pay attention, are incredibly self-absorbed and they make teaching a certain nightmare not worth reliving. Which is why I’m glad that I’m occassionaly able to blog about it. I guess it’s my way at getting back to them for being so irritating!

So I have this one student with ADD. Yes, it’s quite obvious he has ADD, he literally cannot sit still. Somedays, it’s really bad and I wonder if anyone snuck sugar into his lunch, the kid is literally leaping off other students. On the positive side, he’s also the most enthusiastic and participating kid. So when you say, “what is this word” and everyone is grumbling something incoherent, he’s the one going ALIEN!!!! He also doesn’t care about making mistakes (really rare in Japan; mistakes are frowned upon and punishable by death ) and when he gets the answer wrong, he keeps trying until he gets it right. Which is nice to see, really. But he has ADD, so when he’s not being helpful, he’s just another distraction.

Today, when the teacher was trying to teach, he shouted, in the middle of class, “I AM CELIBATE!” I did a double take. “Excuse me???” No one else understood what he said. I don’t think he even knew what he said, I mean, he said it in English. No one also couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t stop laughing afterwards. I apologized to the teacher and later explained to her what the meaning of Celibate really meant…(trust me, I’ve had more awkward conversations with her) .

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