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Monday, November 12, 2012

Days 69-70: Immaturity FTW

Saturday was my 10 hour class marathon. :) Although I did not learn much (I think at some points I knew more about Linguistics than the teacher herself did), I did have a good time. The teacher was a really funny lady from England who said "Bloody!" a lot and made us giggle a ton while she cussed and gave her true opinion on everything. She also provided us with PlayDough, which I took full advantage of. ;) At first I made a lovely coiled pencil holder, but as class wore on and we approached hour 13 within a 24 hour time period, I started making a clay stripper and a clay cupcake. Hahaha.


The highlight of the class was certainly when we learned about Jolly Phonics (how to teach sounds to 3-6 year old beginning readers) and we had to spell a word using the appointed gestures and sounds while picking from the first list of six sounds. Everyone else did "pin" or "tip," etc. - but not my group. My group was myself and two guys, who didn't seem very interested in it all. When the teacher called on us to stand up and do our word, I told the guys to just follow me. I then did the gestures and sounds and spelled out:

T - I - T - S

HAHAHAHA. The class sounded it out with us and then all at once began giggling. This is why I'm awesome. Think out of the box, people. Fifteen hours of class is far too long to hold it together and be just another mature, boring person. Rawr.

We then had to do a story using one sound. I felt like I was on a roll and wasn't just about to stop. Thus my story: Sexy strippers swung sweetly and swindled senile seniors. The boys in my group thought it was brilliant. The one girl in my group was too embarrassed by it and made us change the whole thing to "Silent snakes slithering." UGH. Come ON. I think I left this weekend's session with everyone thinking I'm the crayfish of the class - but at least I kept myself entertained for 15 hours while hearing about stuff I'd learned the first day of my Intro to Linguistics class five years ago.

This must be why some of my students like me. Look at the types of teachers they could have gotten stuck with!! >_< I'm the first person to tell them the truth and be funny. The other day the 16 year olds were telling me about their weekend and they all said they "played with their friends." By the fifth person saying this, I had to stop the class and inform them that this did not sound appropriate and they needed to be introduced to the lovely phrasal verb "to hang out with" FOR REAL. They all giggled and learned that verb quickly. ;)

Anyway, after class I met up with Abby and Kaitlyn at a cute little tapas bar and we drank buckets of beer and ate yummy food (I'm obsessed with salmon tostas - OMG!!!). Abby ordered the "bruchetta de chuches" which we thought would translate to "candy bruchetta," but instead she got a styrofoam cup full of random candy. HAHAHA. And so she had no choice but to eat her cup 'o candy with her beer. ;)


When we got home, everybody was getting all dressed up to go out. Abby and I stayed around for a bit, pregaming and giggling over a covert mission of breaking a certain seal on our bottle and talking about life. Finally, we got to the bar.

Going out with my roomies is the best! We go bar to club, drinking and talking and giggling. Last night it was Abby, Katie, Mariana and me! Mariana, our newish roomie from Italy who is gorgeous and so sweet, spoke to me in Italian for half the night, helping me practice! ^_^ Yay!

Sunday was the only day this week to sleep in, so I took full advantage of it and spent the rest of the day being a lazy bum on Pinterest and hanging on the couch with roomies and eating here and there. :) YAY for lazy days!!! The night finished wonderfully with the Abby Chelsea Roomie Date with our hookah and SNL. Let me just say, Rihanna's new song, "Stay" is gorgeous!!

XOXO

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