The 'eyebroN' case

I didn't post anything yesterday since I was too tired to...well, breathe, not that I feel any better today for I got a terrible cold and I keep sneezing like a cat.

Yesterday I began developing some respect for my boss, today I lost it (life can certainly change in 24 hours). Yesterday she amazed me with her 'finger games', today I almost WTF-ed and OMG-ed at her in front of the whole class.

I shall better explain myself, and no, the 'finger games' do not consist on giving THE finger to the students or anything of the sort.

To make it short since I want to go to sleep *now*.

She begins her class moving her fingers around, each movement has a meaning so while she moves her fingers the students tell a short story in an almost understandable english, which is quite good, right?.

No. Anybody who has studied methodology knows that you can't do that shit because you cannot pay attention to the pronunciation of the students so it's a total waste of time, unless of course you enjoy making them sound like the Vienna Choir, but since it actually sounded good I was amazed and I almost wanted to do it myself (it sounded good, ok?)

So she spends the whole hour doing exercises: Simple past, verb to be, negative questions, wh- questions and so on, the amazing thing is these girls almost understood what she was talking about.

If it wasn't for her pronunciation...

For her a chip is the same as a sheep

Shek/Check

I can't listen you instead of I can't hear you

or the tragic: Read allow to see your pronunciation.

Is your mom a T-shirt teacher? (believe me, it sounded like that)

Speak IN english, instead of speak english.

...

And this was the class I 'liked'.

Oh as a side comment, she allowed 2 girls to go to the loo at the same time...uuhh oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Today: ZOMBBQ!!!1111246356736746746

I arrived 5 minutes early to the classroom and two girls told me they were going to look for the school nurse since one of them was feeling really ill, and she looked like it. I should've known that this could only be a bad omen.

My boss had to take some tests, but she didn't because their xerox machine was broken, so she makes them do the 'finger games' and then work on 'spider words'

e.g: Family: mom, dad, brother, etc

She gave them 8 words and the time was 20 minutes.

THE HECK?

Hello?, the attention span of any normal person is not beyond 5 minutes and she gives them an exercise for 20 minutes?

Still the little monsters do it, just because they are eager to please their teacher. I think if she asked them to jump of the window to get a good grade, they would do it.

Then she sends me to look for the missing tests, waiting for me to perform some kind of miracle (like fixing the machine, or whatever), so I have to run to the first floor, get lost and find two little girls who helped me find the damn machine but no tests. Wonders of wonders these little girls had english with my boss and they said 'ohhh yes miss *****, she used to make us play with our fingers'

Oh God.

So I go back, and the little monsters are still working, heh, I tell her there were no tests, so she begins checking the spiders.

'Ok girls now 'Face: eye, good, ear, very good, nose, good'

'señorita como se dice ceja?'

'EYEBRON'

'como?'

'EEEEEEEYEBROOOOON'

And this is the story of how 44 little girls had their future destroyed by a single woman.

Education is something serious you people! if you don't know something, don't go and teach your students some worthless SHIT, make them look for the word on their dictionaries or say I don't remember, not remembering is not a friggin' crime.

EyebroN

Geeeez.