Saturday, 6 January 2007

a snapshot of my students

i'm working at the whitest school in the world.

evidence: class list for 8HA3

dale b
joseph b
stuart b
jake b
ewan c
stuart c
michael c
samantha c
joshua d
oliver g
jonathan g
karl h
francesca h
matthew h
nicholas h
rebecca j
bronwyn m
zoe m
thomas m
daniel r
adam r
helena s
rebecca s
patrick s
philip s
jack s
zachary t-t
rhys w
oliver w
luke w

there is not a single name there i cannot pronounce! not even any ridiculous invented names.. that whole lecture we had at uni on ways to handle difficult names is being completely wasted! instead i'm drowning in a sea of charlottes and sams...

also, it is the fashion at this school to wear their ties short and fat. they look like cartoon characters. it's difficult to take a little snot's attempts at tough talk seriously when he is sporting a 7cm tie. hilarious!

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

helena and karl are not english names, are they? greek and german?
so no hope in finding any other 'mix' adults around essex then? will just have to celebrate your birthday instead of CNY, perhaps the indian place will do for CNY?

January 06, 2007 11:44 am  
Blogger Nai said...

There is a rather aptly named show (on the Lifestyle Channel in Oz) called 'How Not to Decorate'. It features two of the most annoying, petulant, nasty and whinging little pricks to grace the small screen. The most annoying of the two is prone to wearing the 'short fat tie' look. I had assumed it was an attempt at cutting edge fashion, faux-public schoolboy meets the cash-rich end of SoHo, but if the Baddow middle 7th is in on the look...

January 06, 2007 12:05 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

However no more homogeneous than a class in Japan but with easy to pronounce names. How do the snots take to an ethnically ambiguous teacher also with an easy to pronounce name?

January 07, 2007 4:20 am  
Blogger audrey said...

Who are the geeks? Are you getting used to them calling you "Miss"?

At least they won't get an opportunity to laugh at you because you couldn't pronounce T'shani'aaai'deezoo properly.

Speaking of names, P. Diddy has just named his twin girls Jessie James Diddy (bad) and D'Lila Star Diddy (wack). Jessie James is going to be a rogue district attorney who doesn't play by the rules when she grows up while D'Lila's going to be her no good crack whore stripper singer who always needs help dealing with 'the law'.

January 07, 2007 5:42 am  
Blogger melissa the kisser said...

audrey: jermaine jackson (brother of mickey) on celebrity big brother here has named *his* son Jermajesty. lordy, that family has tickets on themselves...

January 07, 2007 8:11 pm  

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