Well, I do.
But that’s not actually the point of this post. The point is I’ve been tutoring a little girl from Israel. She’s a bright, wonderful 12-year-old who lives in K’far Hayeladim, which is a place where children from Israel whose parents can’t care for them are relocated. Her “adoptive” family here in the U.S. vacations where I live, and this summer they brought the girl (Katya) to the States for a few weeks. Katya is receiving tutoring in English through an agency which hires independent contractors (like me!) to tutor. I spent a year tutoring ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), so I was the obvious choice.
Anyhow, today Katya and I were practicing ordering food. I gave the her a fake menu then staged a conversation. It started off very auspiciously.
Me: Would you like something to drink?
Katya: I like cock!
Me: Um, almost Katya! Say “I’d like coke, please.”
Katya: I’d like cock, please.
I seriously thought I might fall out of my chair from trying to repress the wild urge to laugh. Or I’d say something totally in appropriate like “Me too, Katya, ME too…”
You’ll all be terribly proud to know I held it together.
Barely.
Rofl you did good, I woulda completely lost it in a fit of giggles. x
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too funny! I don’t know what I would have done, ahahaha!
And you reminded me of this site Dan and I have been playing on the last day or so. It connects you to a stranger somewhere in the world:
http://omegle.com/
Now, most people are looking for sex “M/F age?” and you just disconnect those (or mess with their heads if you’re me, heh) but every so often you get someone from another country and they are curious about the USA. And we are equally curious about them. I’ve had some great chats with high school students here and there. Fascinating insight into what they are thinking. And a little scary, most of them are quite cynical and upset about the world economy and politics. I helped a couple of kids with bf/gf problems, one was a girl in China.
Nobody is my age though. Mostly 15 up through early 20’s so far. *sighs* In fact, this is funny, I might blog about it, this one kid was 15 and I told him right off I was 53 and a grandmother in CA. He didn’t believe me because of the way I was writing so I typed, “LOL” and he got really mad and said, “How do you know that?? HOW DO YOU KNOW LOL?” Then he called me a pedo weird old lady and disconnected.
I about peed myself laughing so hard. Like his age group invented “lol”, omg, dying here.
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