Another Friday, another Friday funnies... here we go with this week's awkward encounters. Enjoy.
1. English language learner classes. This week all teachers started a new enrichment group at school. I ended up with a group of 4 students which is good for me because most groups have 20-25. However, these students don't speak English because they're new to the country. Since I'm the Spanish teacher I guess my principal assumed I could speak Spanish with them which is fine with me. (Remember this detail later.) When the time came for them to show up... none of them did - this was the first issue. I immediately went on a walk through the building to search for any remaining stragglers hoping I would find them. After 5 minutes of searching I found 2 of them on a random hallway and on the way back to my classroom, another one wandered to find us and by the time we got back to my classroom the last one was waiting for me - hooray! I had retrieved all my ducklings. I'm not sure why they gave the students that don't know any English the hardest class to find? Anyways, after that, it was all fun and games until - second issue - wanna know the other language we have represented? Bulgarian. You know what language I don't know? Bulgarian. So all 5 of us sat in a circle to get to know each other.. (mind you, I'm supposed to only speak English to them because that's what they're learning) I attempted to explain what we were doing during this time, but I wasn’t even sure myself. It ended up being a lot of over exaggerated expressions, pointing at pictures and a lot laughing (on both ends) because in the end the only language we all knew was just that - laughter. Also as an added bonus I'm no English Language teacher.. so we played UNO and Taco Takeover which was pretty fun. If you can imagine, it was a lot of "reverse means turn around" and "do you have a blue card? You can play it now"... our thirty minute enrichment only allowed for one round but it was fun(ny), at least. Better luck next time, I guess.
2. Trying to be relatable to middle schoolers these days. In a world of VSCO girls (which are girls that wear birkenstocks, oversized t-shirts, and wear scrunchies on their wrists all while they carry a hydroflask), I have recently discovered that I don't know anything these kids are talking about these days. I mean, I'm almost 29, and I wouldn't say I'm unrelatable or uncool, but is it sad that when I lesson plan everyday I have to google "music that teenagers like" or "trendy celebrities" to make sure I'm with the times? If you're wondering, at this point I'm grateful that the Jonas Brothers came back and I watch YouTube on a regular basis so I know at least a few things (AKA James Charles - that's really it). But other than those few things, every time I ask for an example of a famous person I have to google whoever they're talking about like a little old lady using a computer for the first time.
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3.The way my my husband listens. He is honestly funny for many reasons but this story is one for the books. A few weeks ago I asked him to take some chicken out of the freezer and put it in a pan in the refrigerator to dethaw. When I asked my friends after the fact, all of them assumed I was talking about a cookie pan or plate. Not my David. A few hours after asking him to do that, I went to grab a drink and there it was. The defrosting chicken doing its job... but it was in a frying pan. He had stuck a whole frying pan into the refrigerator because that's what he interpreted. Can't be mad at him. He did exactly what I asked him to do. And that's one of the many reasons I love him.
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| There she is in all her glory. |
4. Accidentally wearing my “around the house shoes to school. From a distance, these shoes look fine. But this pair of shoes are not a nice pair of birkenstocks (that all the VSCO girls are wearing) or even the knock off kind from Target that have a big more tread and structure. These babies are the the $3 Dollar General kind I picked up to go outside with Rey or to check the mail. They're too big, dusty and wayyyy worn down on the bottom (like superbad, you know what I mean) I wasn't proud of this moment, but it happened. And I know what you're thinking, "How did you accidently wear those shoes to school?" Well, I have to be at work at 7:30 and I live approximately 5 minutes away (praise hands!) however, I woke up around 7:11 and needed coffee (for obvious reasons) and in the rush and heat of it all wore these bad boys. I will admit I was comfortable but not even a pedicure could change how awful these shoes looked.
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| Keeping myself humble and honest. |
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excuse the disgusting foot photo
(i didn't make it bigger on purpose)
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5. The word quinoa. Why is quinoa funny you might ask? Well, I guess I'm the first person in David's life that has ever cooked it for him to eat and even though I told him what it was, he still didn't remember its quirky name. As he was eating the other night, he looked up at me with the biggest smile and said "Man, this shaqui is so good." Shaqui. Pronounced SHA - KWEE. Needless to say I laughed and he looked at me like "what?" and I told that it was called "Quinoa" and he went "oh well it's still good" (HA) Needless to say in our house we call quinoa "shaqui" and we eat it on we weekly basis. Marriage is fun. Marriage is funny.
6. Conversations with Siri. Yesterday, I asked siri to call "David Martinez." Siri heard "call dad" and for those of you who don't know, my father passed away when I was younger, so for obvious reasons I do not have anyone labeled "Dad" in my phone. But I didn't hear that Siri was asking me what my father's first and last name was so I said "David Martinez" and then she asked me if I wanted it to remember that he was my dad. I don't know why, but I thought this was so funny. Siri is such a neat feature.. but also kinda weird and funny that she knew to ask them all these questions. Anyways, David is now in my phone as Dad. (and don't you go getting weird about it either!)
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| Siri misheard me.... |
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| Here I am accidently telling Siri to label David as "Dad" |
That's all for this week. Hope you enjoyed this week of Friday funnies as much as I did writing it. Leave a comment down below to tell something funny that happened this week and come back next Friday for more!
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