My internet doesn't work anymore. I don't know why or how or why but it stopped working and I'm very not happy.

I'm also not happy with my students. Yesterday I was having a discussion with some students about music or some crap, and there's this little blond girl who doesn't understand a WORD of what I'm saying and just keeps fidgeting around and saying chais pas chais pas. So I'm thinking, ugh, what a little dummy, this girl's English is so awful what's the point.

Then the goddam teacher comes over and is like "Katy why aren't you talking, you're ENGLISH."

Little brat!!! And her and the teacher thought it was so funny that they tricked me into thinking she was this dumb little French girl.

Seriously what the fuck.

Then I had a group of students today and the teacher told me to talk about CIVIL RIGHTS with them. Because, apparently, that's what they're studying . Well, ok, no problem, I printed out some pictures of MLK Jr, etc. etc. and ask them, "What do YOU guys know about Civil Rights in America?" Silence. "What do you think about racism?" More silence. I wrote CIVIL RIGHTS in the USA on the board and they still had no idea what the hell I was talking about. Because the teacher had never started teaching it, and somehow, in 20 minutes, I was supposed to explain to a bunch of French 14 year olds WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH slavery, the civil war, discrimination, lynching, separatism, MLK, racism....

It basically went like this:

Me: Are there still slaves in the USA?
Them: Silence
Me: Do you understand the question?
Them: Yes
Me: So, are there still slaves in the USA?
Them: SILENCE

Dense. Fucking. Kids.

It's SO cold here today,

but

I got CHRISTMAS presents in the mail!!!