December 2010
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Dust motes
*Conversation during a church service.*
7th Grade Boy: I think I can see germs.
Me: No.
7th Grade Boy: Then what is floating in the air?
Me: Dust
7th Grade Boy: Then why does it have a nucleus?
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“Mami, it’s like guts!”
– HS Girl, after being offered more chunchullo and told what it was.
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“I don’t like to take chances with the California Fruits and Nuts.”
– MS parent
Demilitarizing the FARC with love. →
A Christmas touch.
“If gravity did not exist, the world would be a mess.”
– 8th Grade Girl, on science final
“One treat with wetlands is that it is being polluted.”
– 8th Grader on science final
“Buñeulos: little round balls of death.”
– Bible teacher who has severe allergies to corn and dairy, referring to a corn flour and cheese pastry.
“Wetland is water on Earth, such as swaps and mallow.”
– 8th Grader, on science final.
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Pete and Repeat
6th Grade Boy: hi
Me: hi
Me Glitching: hi
6th Grade Boy: how r u ?
Me Glitching: hi
6th Grade Boy: what r we doing tomorrow ??
Me: how were your classes today?
6th Grade Boy: good and yours ??
Me: I am fine
Me Glitching: how were your classes today"
6th Grade Boy: oooo and what r we doing tomorrow
Me Glitching: how were your classes today"
6th Grade Boy: ?? good!!
6th Grade Boy: good aaaaaa
Me: experiments
Me Glitching: experiments
6th Grade Boy: ay no can we go outside ??
Me: Meh, they were ok.
Me Glitching: experiments
6th Grade Boy: jajajaja
6th Grade Boy Glitching: can we go outside ??
Me: THe chat keeps sending things I only sent once
6th Grade Boy: jajajajaja
“Sing, sang, song.”
– 8th grade girl practicing verb tenses- present, past, past participle.
“The kids are purchased for the stockings.”
– MS Principal
A Rose By Any Other Name
The forgetfulness of my name has spread to other grades.
8th Grade Boy: Pablin, come here.
6th Grade Girl: Profe. Rogers! Profe. Rogers.
8th Grade Girl: Mrs. Van Zant, I need help.
5th Grade Girl: Mami....
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We were talking about singing scales in 6th grade.
6th Grade Boy: La-la-la-la-boom!
Me: What's the boom?
6th Grade Boy: It's when you explode from singing too high.
“You have a reindeer voice!”
– 6th Grade Girl
“Skepticism is a type of plan, right?”
– 7th Grade Boy
“After five [children], we decided to close the factory.”
– A middle schooler’s father.
More Mudslides Here →
Mudslides in Medellin because of the massive amounts of rain.
Shoes
I recently bleached the white part of my faux-converse shoes and wore them to school. One of my 8th grade students while standing next to me asked a question and noticed how clean my shoes were. He pretended to step on my foot and then asked me what I would do if he did mark my shoes. I said I didn’t care and that I’d just wash them again. All of a sudden he yelled to the rest of...
Hero Day
The high school is having a spirit week and one day was "Heroes and Villains." One student dressed as his hero, Jesus. So I heard this in the hall.
High School Girl: Jesus, save me!
High School Boy/Jesus: I already have.
Test Question: What has more volume- 1 pound of hot food or 1 pound of the same leftover food in the fridge?
6th Grade Boy: The hot food has more volume because the other is decomposed.
6th Grade Boy #2: Leftovers have less because leftovers are what you didn't eat and that is less than what you started with.
Worst rainy season in 60 years! →
At school on Thursday we had a torrential downpour and then the power went out and stayed out for the last hour of school.
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(I wore a skirt one day to school which I don't do very often.)
7th Grade Boy: Why did you bring a skirt?
Me: Because if I didn't, I'd be naked.
7th Grade Boy: But why did you bring a skirt to school today?
Me: Well you see the school has this rule where you have to wear clothes, so I thought I'd follow that rule.
(The 7th grade boy thinks about it but can't come up with the right question in English.)
Me: You mean to ask "Why are you wearing a skirt?"
7th Grade Boy: Yes, why?
Me: It's laundry day.
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“In the rain cycle when the clouds get too full they explode and create...”
– 8th Grade Girl