Saturday, November 1, 2008

an end in sight

An eleven year-old girl, whose mother teachers at my school, eats lunch with me almost everyday. Here's what she said when I asked what subject was her favorite:

Joy: English!
Me: Why?
Joy: Because my teacher is very pretty and nice.
Me: What if she was ugly?
Joy: Then I wouldn't like English as much.

It's official. I will stop teaching before I become old and ugly.

1 comment:

Xiao Na said...

Lol I had a similar conversation with one of my students. She asked "are all of the foreign teachers pretty like you" to which I responded "well, many of them are but everyone is different". I don't think this sank in because I think she's convinced that you have to be somewhat attractive to be allowed to teach in this country......WEIRDOS. lol