Nov 5, 2007
There are so many funny, amusing, random things that happen in China. I've decided to dedicate a Monday post to them. So keep coming back every Monday for the next silly thing that's happened.
This one takes place in one of the classes I teach. It's an hour and a half long adult's class. There is one middle-aged married couple (the wife seems to stare at the other teacher's crotch through the whole class he teaches, or so he tells me.), a seventeen year old kid who take almost every class at the school, and a young adult that works at a hotel during the day and a members-only Japanese snack bar at night (sketchy...). Quite an interesting class.
We chatted and studied for the first forty minutes, took a ten minute break, then studied and played a game for the last forty minutes. This happened during the game.
I don't even know what the game is called, it's the game where one person thinks of a word and everyone else asks yes/no questions to try to figure out the word.
It was the middle-aged wife's turn. The conversation went something like this, though a bit more drawn out. Add some extra grammar mistakes, me interrupting them with corrections, and bits of Chinese and you'd have tonight's game.
Me: Is it alive?
Wife: No.
Kid: Is it a noun?
Wife: No.
Snack Bar Girl: It is an adjective?
Wife: No.
Kid: Is it a verb?
Wife: Yes!
Kid: Do you do it in sports?
Wife: No.
Husband: Do you do it at home?
Wife: No.
Kid: Can everyone is this room do it?
Wife: No.
Kid: Huh?
(Then they broke the rules.)
Wife: Me, Husband, Snack Bar Girl, and Mark can do it.
Kid: Not me?
Wife: No.
(We all scratched our heads for a bit.)
Kid: Have sex?
We all just about died laughing. A good end to a looooong day.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the word she was thinking of was work.
I like the sound of that class, how nice!