The Birds and the Bees...and more...

Hey all!

So, these past few weeks, I've been playing various games with my students to pass the time after we finish the main activities of a class. We had about 3 minutes left one time, so I decided to play Hangman. I decided to choose a hard word ("rhythm") and confuse the students a little bit. Usually, at least one student usually screams out "Z" or "Y" to try to kill the hangman, so I thought..."why not put a Y in there?" It ended up not being the best idea lol

The first three letter call-outs went like this:

Male Student 1:  "S!!!!"

Me: NO!  (draws a head)

Male Student 2:  "E!!!!"

Me: NO!!  (I wrote "E" above the hangman area, then drew a body....then I paused, hoping that this wasn't gonna go the way I think it was gonna go...)

Male Student 3:  "X!!!!"

Me:  LOL.....NOOOOO!!! (the students were rolling, but then I wrote X between S and E, much to the boys chagrin. hahaaa suckers!)

JTE: *in a slow, deep, menacing voice* "君たち。。。 (Ki-mi-ta-chiii.....You guys.....>.<)"

I couldn't hold it in....I'm pretty sure I was still laughing even fifteen minutes after class was over... xD

But that whole situation kinda gave me a reality check. Even though they're Japanese, they're still high school students. Normal high school students with a healthy interest in the birds and the bees.

In fact, a couple of my students asked me "When was your first kiss?" and I answered honestly "Last year!" and they were like O_____O "NO WAYYYYY"....how baffled they would be to know that it was actually earlier this year, upon more reflection...

So yes. I am forced to remember this healthy interest every once in a while.

Most recently, at my visit school, we played a categories game, where the students were split into teams of 6. A category was given and students had to write as many words as possible pertaining to the category on a piece of paper within two minutes. I rolled a 20 sided dice and the letter A came up, prompting me to write "Words that start with A" on the board.  I was quite surprised by many of the answers.

There were really good ones like: android, angel, angle, accent, accident, etc.

Then, one brilliant group had written down "arse", which ended up being quite tame compared to the next group, which wrote "anal" (me: 0.0), to which I just shook my head. When I gave back the pieces of paper to each group, I shook my head and laughed while giving a light karate chop to the head of the student writing the words. "I DIDN'T WRITE THAT!", he vehemently protested.  I asked him "Who did??" and one student proudly raises his hand with the smuggest look I've ever seen on a person and said "Me! Me!"

Commence more head shaking...

Oh, boys...

Well, these have been an interesting few weeks for me, to say the least. Students say the darndest things. Especially when the most memorable words in a language are often curse words, rude words, or words about sex.  -__-;;;