ca fait peur

 A couple of hilarious things that I've found out lately.

One, I was chatting with some students the other day and they were discussing my eyes and how weird they were. And then they said something about how there was black in the middle, and I had to interrupt them and make sure I understood. They were weirded out by my eyes not because they were bluish but because there was black in the middle. aka my pupil. And I had to break it to them that everyone in the world has that black part in the middle of their eye, even them, but they can't tell because their eyes are so dark they don't notice. I don't think they believed me.
Also they hate it when you widen your eyes when you are looking at them, like you would do if you were surprised or scared. A fact that I find hilarious and do all the time now, because they'll be talking, notice that I'm doing it and then say Ouaiii madam, ca fait peur. Don't, that's scary.

Two, last weekend was the sortie and all the students who passed last trimester got to leave and spend the weekend with their family. Well before the car came to get them all, I was chatting with one student and I don't remember what we were talking about exactly or how we even got on this subject but she was telling me that when I leave to go back to America, she will follow me and then and I quote nous allons vomir anglais comme ce n'est pas interdit. Which literally translated means, we are going to vomit english like it's not forbidden. Naturally, I found that phrasing hilarious and started laughing really hard and she just looked at me weird.

Also when the kids insult each other they make a really annoying sound that I hate, so one day I told them that in America when you insult someone you say either- ooOOOOOOoooo  or Zing!  As in your mama's so fat she can't leave her house -- Zing! So now instead of making the annoying noise they make after insults they say either ooOOOOOoooo or Zing! Meaning I'll be walking to or from class and suddenly amidst all the french and moore I will here 5 students all say Zing! at the same time. It's so funny that I almost can't stand it, I lol every single time. I'm working on other things to tell them that people say a lot in america, even though almost no one besides myself says Zing!

In computer class we are doing typing exercises which, let's be honest- no one likes, even as a kid you hated doing them but it's necessary and typing is probably the main skill they will actually use here. Anyways, after ten minutes they start complaining like nobodies buisness and I get really annoyed so last week I told them that if they did it the whole hour and were good and quiet and didn't complain I would play music for them. And like magic they all sat like little angels at their computers typing away for an hour. The only catch was it was american rap music and so with almost every song someone would ask me what they were saying and almost always I didn't feel it was necessary to tell them what they were really singing about so I'd say things like 'He's saying he loves her and wants to get married' or 'she's saying she just wants to dance' or 'they really like talking to each other on the phone' or 'he really likes smart ladies.' Hahaha, also that song Halo by Beyonce I just told them was about angels, so now I'm pretty sure they think it's a churchy song. (re: I'm a terrible person)