Those Young 'Uns
So the other day I met some First graders at one of my elementary schools. Since it was my first time meeting them (most of them, I'd met a couple of them around the town before through siblings and such), I was going to do a little self-introduction. I usually do something very simple for the young ones. Three or so sentences with lots of gestures:
Hello!
My name is Lucky!
I am 25 years old!
I like strawberries!
Nice to meet you!
This time, instead of "I like strawberries" I accidentally said, "I am from Canada!" Of course that meant nothing to them. One of the kids kept on yelling that I came from the country of English and he actually yelled at me to go back to English at one point (hmf! I just might do that you little...! *ahem* little sweet thing. *ahem*... wherever English is.)
If I ever say that I am from Canada to the little ones I have my map of the world with me and my colour in the flag of Canada colouring sheets, but this time I had NOTHING! I stood there in a moment of "oh shit why did i say that." The kids stared at me with their eyes wide with wonder (one little boy intently sucking on his sleeve - for the entire class actually), some yelled at me some more, and then the wonderful teacher pulled out a huge world map out of some magic corner of the classroom.
So the map goes up and I start to point at Japan saying here we are! And the kid that told me to go back to English is yelling "That's here dummy!" Good. They know where Japan is on the world map. Step one accomplished. So I start to point to Canada, and also point at America to give them a frame of reference, because everyone knows about America. So as I am pointing at this big map the kids start to say "The weather is sunny here! And here it is rainy!"
Lucky the weathercaster. Yup. I guess they were simply referring to when they usually see someone point at a large map of the world... the weather report. It was hilarious. I had a good laugh, the kids thought I was nuts and eventually they understood that you have to take a very long plane ride to get to where I am from. I still think that one kid thinks I come from a country called English.
Hello!
My name is Lucky!
I am 25 years old!
I like strawberries!
Nice to meet you!
This time, instead of "I like strawberries" I accidentally said, "I am from Canada!" Of course that meant nothing to them. One of the kids kept on yelling that I came from the country of English and he actually yelled at me to go back to English at one point (hmf! I just might do that you little...! *ahem* little sweet thing. *ahem*... wherever English is.)
If I ever say that I am from Canada to the little ones I have my map of the world with me and my colour in the flag of Canada colouring sheets, but this time I had NOTHING! I stood there in a moment of "oh shit why did i say that." The kids stared at me with their eyes wide with wonder (one little boy intently sucking on his sleeve - for the entire class actually), some yelled at me some more, and then the wonderful teacher pulled out a huge world map out of some magic corner of the classroom.
So the map goes up and I start to point at Japan saying here we are! And the kid that told me to go back to English is yelling "That's here dummy!" Good. They know where Japan is on the world map. Step one accomplished. So I start to point to Canada, and also point at America to give them a frame of reference, because everyone knows about America. So as I am pointing at this big map the kids start to say "The weather is sunny here! And here it is rainy!"
Lucky the weathercaster. Yup. I guess they were simply referring to when they usually see someone point at a large map of the world... the weather report. It was hilarious. I had a good laugh, the kids thought I was nuts and eventually they understood that you have to take a very long plane ride to get to where I am from. I still think that one kid thinks I come from a country called English.
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