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All Rise for the Monthly Reading of the Cute Boy Band Memorandum!

25 Aug

Someone’s Hot Guys Magazine came in yesterday!
And by someone, I mean the 3 female students sitting in front of me in the auditorium. And by hot guys, I mean a boy band group of some type. Three magazines filled with pictures of the boy band group being all awesome and, according to a credible source (aka Girl #1) ‘wow!’. The girls were so excited, sharing the magazines between them and already folding down faves. Then break struck and the rest of their crew arrived to check it out. Lol, I haven’t seen so much fangirling since the tall French boy came for study abroad and had the girls hanging out in the Bridge Café to watch him. 🤣😂
#TeachingisFun #TheYoungandtheRestless #GoogleyEyes #Fangirls

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12 Jun
OMG this week is confusing 😂
There are about 28 sophomores re-taking economics this semester. The school has changed our schedule for this week 4 times now.
 
There are also about 4 of them failing the class right now. I am setting up one-on-one meetings with them.
 
Problem: They call meetings ‘classes’ — So my conversations go something like this: 
 
Me: Hey darling, we have class at 8:30am now.
 
Student: So I should come to your office then?
 
Me: No, that is still the same. This is class with your friends.
 
Student: Oh. . . .
 
Me: Hey darlin, our class was changed to 7:00pm so we need to rearrange our meeting to another time.
 
Student 2: So. . . . I don’t have class at 7:00.
 
Me: No, you do have class at 7:00. But we don’t have our meeting.
 
Student 2: Oh, I will come to your office at 7:00.
 
Me: 😅 No. . . that’s the class with your friends.
 
Student 2: -_-   
Me: . . . . . Guess what, Class is now moved to 3:30pm. . . . . So we need to move our meeting and the class. 
Student 3: (sobbing face).
 
Me: This is so confusing. . . .
 
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The End of the Future — When You’re a student anyway

15 May
Supposed to meet a student today to talk about how to study for the final (he had a hard time on the middle exam). Super easy.
 
Student — 26 messages including 14 horror faces 😱 9 sobbing faces 😭 and 3 weeping piggies.
 
Me — Darlin! Are you okay? Is the world over? Has life ended?!?
 
Student — TEACHER! (more sobbing faces) . . . My building had no power (true). My phone died and I didn’t get the alarm. I went to sleep and I forgot our meeting! Will I pass the test!?! Will I fail!?! Dear teacher, what should I do! (Another weeping piggy).
 
Me — Darlin — no fears, there’s this awesome fun word called RESCHEDULING!
 
Student — 😮Wow! We can do that?
 
Me — Sweetheart, I am Queen Olivia of the Economics classroom known as Olivia Country. There is nothing I can’t do 😎 Mwahahahahaha I am powerful! 😂🤣
 
Teaching — the power is addicting. Also, they are calling me Queen Olivia now because we keep talking about Olivia Country in economics 😅

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Teaching Confusion. . . .

24 Sep
I have more than 600 students this semester between all three classes I teach (I teach the entire junior and sophomore years – – all majors). But there is always that magic moment when a student adds me on Wechat with the profile image of a random (though adorable) bunny, the username “RainbowsareCute🌺” and the clarifying statement “Teacher, I am your student. What chapter is for the next class?. . . . . .
 
Well, that’s a VERY good question. If I knew how I knew you, I could possible know the answer 🤣😂💚 Let us now ponder the mystery together!

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Cheating #China Style

19 Apr



Cheating China style 😰  So annoying.  No notes mid-term exam, somehow they had magic notes under the keyboard.  ‘Teacher, It’s not mine. I Don’t know where it came from!’

Funny. . . You’re the only one in this seat. 😡  How do they even read a font that small?  

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#TeachingLols ~ That’s a lot of Kids!

6 Apr
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So I’m working with my international students (Mongolia, Indonesia, and India) and asked what they did this summer.
One girl goes off because she expected to have a vacation, but got stuck working. She starts listing all of her chores, complaining, and the other students are just nodding along commiserating.
She finally gets to the part where she had to babysit her siblings and cousins. The kids are like “yep, yep” right up until she goes “So, I just want to say that I’ve learned from this summer. I mean, I am totally not going to have more than 5 kids. That’s just more than enough.” Said completely sincerely with no inflection or emphasis at all.  You could see them start to nod again, stop, look at one another and turn in unison to stare at her. One girl goes “FIVE kids” with eyes real big. She goes “Yeah! I mean, I think stopping there is plenty.” They stare some more. I crack up secretly on the inside.
This in the country where 2 kids is only just now allowed universally and is still pretty rare in the cities. 

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#TeachingHumor ~ Haha! Had one Today!

22 Feb

Ms. Rose's Meme!:

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Dance-Off Party

12 Dec

These are my amazing students! As part of our Business Negotiations class, I asked them to prepare a group dance. They had to work together and we voted on who had the best dance. There were some GREAT ideas here, and I was really proud of them. Make sure you watch the last dance!

 

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#ESL Humor (Tudou – the Potato Company)

3 Dec

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Hahaha!

One of my students was writing about the Youku / Tudou (2 Chinese media companies like Youtube) merger for our Negotiations class.

However, they put what they wrote into Bing!Translator to move it from Chinese to English. And Tudou translates as “Potato Net.” So every time they meant to say Tudou, it says “Potatoes.”

“Youku and the potatoes had a 100% merger . . . . potatoes have been issued”. . . .  and the potatoes are buying up stock.

I’m just saying – these are some advanced potatoes and I want in on the action. Do smart, shareholder potatoes taste better when you eat then?

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Next Week or the Other Next Week?

20 Oct

Sigh. . . . ESL problems. Spent twenty minutes tonight in a disagreement with a student over the date of the mid-term. I stupidly stated the exam would be “next week on Thursday.” – – – “But teacher, we don’t have class on Thursday next week. . . ” I’m sorry??? “We have class on Thursday this coming week. Then the next week no class on Thursday.” It’s the little things in ESL teaching – like trying to explain what precisely “this week” and “next week” mean. They always think “next week” means the “week after next.” Confusing? I know, me too 😛 The life I live!

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