21 February 2011

Currently listening to a 15 minute long rap song

Hilarious thing that people say here is when babies whine or cry they say- your going to do baby gater? Which literally translates to ruined baby. Which makes me laugh every single time I hear it. You're acting like a ruined baby right now child, quit it.

Also, I've become someone who shushes, and I do not feel good about it. Everybody hates someone who shushes, but I find myself doing it more and more because sometimes they just make a lot of noise and I shush them and the moment I do it, I feel gross inside. Thursday I tried doing the thing that conductors do at the end of a song, you know what I'm talking about? But the moment I did it I realized there are no such thing as orchestras, much like conductors so they have no idea what that hand motion I just did meant. Then today I told them if they kept talking I'd take points off their test and that worked like a charm. Looks like my shushing days are over. (fingers crossed, if not I will hate myself every single time I shushe someone)

In my 6eme English class they did pretty terribly on the test and I was rather annoyed/felt bad for them. Knowing that the next day when I returned the tests several of them would burst into tears at their scores, but almost half the points were vocabulary and not grammar or hard english stuff. It doesn't have anything to do with my teaching, but the fact that they didn't study as they should have. Also tonight I was talking with the Directrice and it turns out a few of the girls in the back where cheating by trading a paper with answers on it, so now I don't feel bad at all but discouraged which is silly because them cheating has nothing to do with me expect that I didn't catch them.

So in class the next day I put on my disappointed, sad face and told them I was very upset with how they worked on the test. I handed back all the tests, luckily no one cried or at least I didn't see anyone crying, but they all complained and asked to have another test at the end so they could drop that test score. Not a chance my friends, not a chance. Then the girl who cheated, I called her up and talked to her after class and I asked her if she had anything she wanted to say about the test yesterday. She looked at me and was like...I don't understand. And I was like well, I heard from several professors and other students that like and idiot you were bragging about how you cheated on my test yesterday. Which was followed with her saying no that wasn't me, it was another girl and I said no I wouldn't do it. To which I responded, no, you are lying to me right now. Unfortunately I didn't catch you in the act so I can't do anything, but I just want you to know that I am not happy, I am very disappointed in you and now I think you are a liar and this is a problem. What are we going to do about this? No response... What are we going to do about this? To which I get the classic response Madame, je demande pardon.
Really? I demand forgiveness. That just about put me over the edge. I'm so sick of that phrase and hate that everyone here thinks that will fix everything. Newsflash! It doesn't. You can't just ask forgiveness! Don't you understand that you have lost any faith and trust I had in you? It doesn't get automatically replaced my asking forgiveness. Nope. Very annoying.

Anyways, I made them right 60 sentences in english that night for homework. They hated me for it, but at least next test they probably won't suck as bad.

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