Archive for April, 2010

Singing Sensation

April 17th, 2010

I am a singing sensation! Well, that might actually be exaggerating a little bit. I’m really not much of a singer and despite that my students are always wanting me to sing. I don’t know if they’re so used to bad singing because they go to KTVs all the time, or if their ears are warped so much they think I’m just that good. How did I get talked into this? Well, after my April Fools Day joke went off so well I needed to make sure the classes didn’t tell each other. So I just asked them really nicely to not tell anyone else until the end of the week. I wasn’t expecting it, but Gee, one of the girls in my first class asked, “What are you going to do for us?”. I guess I hadn’t thought about that.

“Sing us a song…. in Chinese!”

I was reluctant to do so, but what the heck, I might as well give it a try. This is how it turned out.

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April Fools & Easter

April 8th, 2010

Last week was April Fool’s day (愚人节), or for me rather, April Fool’s week. Unfortunately I didn’t actually have class on April 1, but that didn’t stop me from playing a trick on each one of my classes. The trick went simply like this; I told them that the school leaders wanted me to give more quizzes, these quizzes would be pop-quizzes so they didn’t know there were coming. Our first one is today. This sent them into a panic. They were so worried about doing well on this quiz that they would do whatever it said. Lucky me. Knowing that students don’t always read directions so well I gave them each a quiz like the one below. As you can see, the instructions say to read the entire quiz first before doing anythere. Well, students often don’t read directions, so this leads them to do every question on the quiz before they get to the bottom and realize they’ve been tricked. All the while I was taking a video of them doing some pretty silly things. Check out the videos after the jump.

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