Monday, June 16, 2008

Cute things my students have said that I hate to have to correct (Episode 1)































1) Sunshiney [suhn-shahy-nee] - adjective
Pertaining to the ratio of sun to clouds on a particular day.
ex: It's very sunshiney today.  I think I might go to the beach.

2) Son-in-love [suhn-in-luhv] - noun
Son-in-law, with an amorous twist
ex: My daughter got married last weekend, so now I have a new son-in-love.

3) Happy good - [hap-ee good] - adjective
Used interchangeably with "Have a good" by the mother of the boys I teach, who says it proudly every Thursday evening while her sons giggle.
ex: Happy good weekend!

And finally, today one of my students said "Thank you for you" in response to me thanking them for coming to the 8 am class.  There's a chance she might have meant "Same to you," but I'd like to think she wanted to thank me for being me.  Yeah, let's go with that one.

*These pictures have nothing to do with the post.  But it's a tshirt from Threadless called "International Translation," and the idea is that you can travel anywhere and point to your shirt to communicate if you don't know the word for "bathroom" in Romanian, for example.  Clever.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Moving on up

This post is going to be a short one, but I wanted to say that I'm all moved into my new (and final) apartment! It feels good to be settled, even if my room looks like this at the moment:




After some unpacking and a trip to IKEA (pronounced ee-kay-ah here), I'll post some "after" pictures.  Bona nit!