July 15th, 2011 - Part 3

[thewalk]

It upsets me when students come 5 minutes before the class to tell me in Japanese that they've forgotten their textbook. Mostly it's the use of Japanese that bothers me. "I forgot my textbook" is about as rudimentary as it gets, short of "This is a pen." But probably what annoys me the most is that they always look like they're about to shit themselves when they do it.

So, no only are you not going to even try English, you're going to imply I'm terrifying at the same time? Awesome lol

---edit---

I hate that textbook bullshit, but I did love actually going to the class. After I'd taught the word "muscular" among a host of other people adjectives, a girl called me over during work time and declared, "STEPHANIE, I want to be muscular!! I want strong muscles!" :) Of course the good English made me happy, but what made me happier was a young woman who actually wanted to be strong :)