Boys will be boys...

Supposedly, one fun thing about learning English for elementary school boys is that they get to learn all sorts of dirty words and human body parts in a different language. So, instead of paying attention to my delightfully exciting class about using commas to put more than one adjective in a sentence (haha), they decided to look in their vocabulary books and on the translation cell phone thing one of them has and ask me if I knew all sorts of fun words (breasts, genitals, naked, etc. etc. etc.).

Normally this class has three boys and one girl, but luckily the girl was missing today, so I got to be sole witness to the giggling, no holds barred, ridiculousness of some of the words they were asking me about. Honestly, I felt like these boys just saw a porn magazine for the first time with how badly they begged me not to say anything to anyone about the things they were asking.

I tried to be teacher Amanda... but really, some of the things they were asking really were funny. Especially when one of the boys said "sexy" and the other two flipped out like it was the worst word ever. The boy got embarrassed and decided to actually pay attention after that. As tough as I was trying to be by telling them to put their stuff up and pay attention, I think I slightly egged them on by laughing when they asked me if I knew what one of the words was (I'd tell you, but I can't remember right now... there were so many).

U.S.A... South Korea... it doesn't matter where we are, boys will be boys at that age. I hope I have a son one day... otherwise my daughter is never leaving the house when she gets to elementary school with all the pervy boys around. Haha, ok I'm kidding... but seriously...


Anyway...

My Japan trip is cancelled for next weekend. Supposedly the flights are all booked. I'm not too upset... although I'd really like to have my health check be over and be able to get a cell phone. Guess I'll just have to wait.

I have a killer headache, so I'm gonna call it a night.

"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”     

-Anne Frank