Silly kids...

I have a few funny stories from a couple classes this week.

I always begin class with "Good afternoon (morning). How are you?" Thursday one of my students (an endearing troublemaker, if you can imagine the type) demonstrated that he has been learning English from other sources besides my class. "I'm sexy!" he announced.

The topic of the day was parts of the body. He continuously begged me to teach them how to say "butt," pointing just in case after almost 7 months in France I hadn't figured out the word "fesse." Then everyone giggled when I taught them "face" - because it sounds awfully similar to "fesse."

My mistake du jour was teaching them how to say "lungs." No, that's not quite accurate. The real mistake was not thoroughly demonstrating lungs (by breathing and pointing - I refuse to teach them words by simply giving the French equivalent) before drawing a picture on the chalkboard. The kids started giggling as I tried to figure out which of the five body part word-drawing pairs had a silly equivalent in French. Then I realized that my lung illustration bore a striking resemblance to strangely shaped breasts.