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| Kids Say the Darndest Things |
| 06.25.04 (3:57 am) [edit] |
Linklater tested it. Cosby proved it. And today, I witnessed it.
I was teaching three classes today, and by the end of the third one I was getting a little cocky. Things were just going a bit too-well, and I was feeling a little over-confident, and I think the kids picked up on it (trying to get them to call me `Super-Sensai` may have tipped them off). At any rate, one little girl who was causing a bit of trouble (nothing serious, just kept trying to kill me by putting blocks around in strategic places so I could trip over them) got a little irritable after I told her for the twentieth time to behave. She got a big scowl on her face, and turning around, muttered something in Japanese to her classmates, of which the only word I could pick out was `Pinnochio.` The class abruptly burst out laughing.
I was oblivious. `What? Did she just call me Pinnochio?` The class is all grins.
Now I`m curious, and attributing it to the latest Disney craze that has sprung up over here with the release of `Finding Nemo.` So I ask, `Why? Why did you call me Pinnochio?`
Imagine my reaction at the reply from the little darling, in her haltingly hesitant- yet assertive English: `You have...big nose!`
There really is nothing quite as humbling as an insult from an 8 year-old.
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