The train ride was uneventful, which is good, and the students are having a great time. Yesterday we went kayaking and today we went hiking. I can see why these trips are important; not only are they having fun but they're learning a lot, too.The eight boys in my charge are two Indians, a Thai, an Australian/Thai, a Kiwi, a German/Japanese/Thai, a Korean and a Chinese. Like all teenagers, they love to learn, and acquiring language occupies a large part of their brain space. Today in the songthaew they were arguing about how to spell weird: is it i-e or e-i? I listened until they reached consensus: it's spelled w-i-e-r-d.
"No," I corrected them, "it's spelled w-e-i-r-d. Don't you know the rule? i before e except after c, or when it's spelled like an a, as in neighbor or weigh."
"Huh??" They looked at me strangely.
Uh-oh. Weird is an exception. That's weird.
It's a good thing they had a teacher along--to confuse them!
2 comments:
oh my god mr. mick.
missed that trip BIG TIME!!!
Y10 trip is horrible!!!
we were trekking for like.. 5 hours yesterday
and like.. an hour more today with HUGE obstacles... like logs double my length!!!
and people wouldn't shut up in their tents and a teacher was snoring EXTREMELY loud! (=] you can take the guess.. many of us woke up late at night)
it was horrible!!!
haf fun in chiang dao!!! =]
lily
I always end that one with, "except for a few weird words, like kaleidoscope" (ever since a sixth grade student of mine had to settle for second in the county spelling bee because he remembered it).
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