...from a 9 year old. In her second language:
"I think if you like someone, you should just see them a lot and make sure you do things once. Fight once. Eat once. Play once. Then if you still love them, you can marry them."
At this point her classmates balked at the idea of fighting. "Fight once?! You don't want to fight once with people you love!"
To which she replied, "It's like fighting with your friends or family. You still love them. But you have to know how he fights. If you never fight, then you get married and if he's very bad when he fights, then you won't know until it's too late. But if you fight once first, and he's very bad when he fights, then you just dump him and get a new boyfriend."
At this point I had to ask the class, now deeply invested in this discussion and far more opinionated about it than I ever could have anticipated, "How does a person just find a new boyfriend?"
From one of the boys in the class, "You have to just make him love you. Wear a lot of makeup and be a little mean to him. Then go find a book called '100 Ways to Find a Boyfriend' and read it. There's probably a book like that, right?"
I love my job. I love my students (yes, this is the highest level class at school). I love the way their brains work (enough to write all this down while still trying to teach, haha).
And I love you all!
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they are just so darn cute.....I may have to try the points on how to get a boyfriend. Wear make-up and be mean....
Thanks for the post, I love it.
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Wow! How insightful for someone so young! You should send that into kids say the darndest things or something like that! I bet they're so smart, because they have such a great teacher! Do you have any 6-year olds? I was wondering if they would like to have a penpal in Norman, OK. I happen to know a few 6-year olds... :)
9-year olds saying this, how amazing!! I think men do like it when you are a little mean to them.
Wow. Your kids are AMAZING and very insightful. Do you know the ISBN number for that 100 Ways to Find a Boyfriend book? I could use some help...all of my exes are married now (and not to me) ;0
I wish i could see my relationship through my two year olds eyes? apparently my hubby is in charge of me and she is in charge of him, that sounds about right! we met through a london dating site and have never looked back even through these children years.
I think Elizabeth Taylor wrote that book
Are you counting down the days until vacation yet?
When is you and Audra's vacation anyway? And where's the new blog entries? I so wish I could sign up for alerts of when new things are added! You doing OK? I'm doing better. But I know us; we're the toughest b!#%hes I know, and we will ALWAYS come out on top! I miss the hell out of you, Em. When are you coming home again? LOVING YOU!
It never fails that after reading all your blogs, I have such a huge smile on my face because you are so funny, your kids are so heartwarming and I know this was a great decision you made... to leave us and go for all that gusto in a different country! We hope we get to see you when you come home for a visit in August... let us know the dates... Love and Miss You, Sheila.
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