Stuff my students say

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Stuff my students say

In year 7 Indonesian language class:

Female student: "Sir, you're Indonesian, right?"
Me: "Well, my Mum is from Indonesia."
Female student: "Because your English is really good. Like, really good. How did you get to speak English so well?"
Me: "Well, I was born in Australia... but thank you, your English is really good too."

Stuff my students say

"So you know how they're always talking about 'Don't buy palm oil, save the orang-utans, blah blah blah... does that mean they actually cut off the orang-utans' hands to make the oil? That's so mean."

- A girl in Year 9 Geography. (I'm on teaching placement at the moment, which is why I've been away from this blog for a week.)

What I've been doing this week...

This blog has been unattended for almost a whole week, because I've been as busy as a bee with a deadline. I'm back now though. I'll give you a moment to rejoice before reading on.

I'm studying to be a teacher right now and the last couple of weeks have been my teaching rounds. That involves full-time work and plenty of after-hours preparation, which leaves little time for ruminations on a blog. But I thought I'd share with you one of the highlights of my teaching experience, which came out of my humanities lesson focusing on the Antarctic.

Me: "So why do you think dogs proved to be more successful than ponies at pulling sleds in early Antarctic exploration?"
Grade 5 boy: "Because ponies are for girls."

Love it.