Today, I began my job volunteering at an orphanage in Beijing, China, working with 7-year-olds who just started learning english. We played a game where, if you got caught, you had to sing a song. I got caught, so I chose the ABCs. They all knew the song perfectly, I missed 3 letters. FML
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Today, I was at work at a preschool. I was sitting outside with the kids and was getting bored so I started singing. One of the little girls runs up and puts her hand over my mouth and tells me to stop. I'm in a select chorus at my highschool and plan to major in choral studies in college. FML
Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, whilst singing at school in front of 300 visiting primary school children I forgot the second verse to my song and let out an F*** word with the microphone still up to my face. FML
Today, I volunteered to help out at an elementary school. I accidentally elbowed a little girl in the face while playing tag. And an hour later, a little boy flew out of his swing because I accidentally pushed him too hard. They're both siblings and are my child psychology instructor's kids. FML
Today, while working as a swim instructor, I started singing the hokey pokey to get all the kids used to putting their faces in the water. One of the kids was covering his ears. When I asked him why, he said "because you were singing." He's 3. FML
Today, I called the Vietnamese teacher at my son's kindergarten by my Chinese colleague's name. Luckily, she didn't catch it. I'm not a racist, I was just tired after a long day. FML
Today, I sang at a retirement home with my school choir. Afterwards, we went to speak to the old people, just to get to know them a little. The first woman I shook hands with asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?" FML
Today, I sang the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song with a class of thirty 20-somethings because we're going to be kindergarten teachers. She made us do the hand motions too. FML
Today, I was volunteering at a neighborhood house tutoring a bunch of kids. Everything was going fine until one of them jumped on the table I was at, which broke and hit my knee. I swore in front of all the kids and my volunteer coordinator. FML
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fxdxhk90 0
I'm just surprised that you wrote this without any spelling errors.
Sportsfan86 3
How do you miss 3 letters? If you're voulunteering, you should know it.
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Comments (183)
notFUNNYtoMEass 0
btw... nuns ftw!? LMAO!! badass name
subierat84 0
How?
DJ375 0
WTF?? what 3 letters do you not know?
TItan160 0
there is only one way I know of to forget the ABC's and that is to binge drink for years my friend is 18 and he can't remember how to say the ABC's because he drinks so much. oh and weed will do that to you to
AnaMaree 0
Does this phrase come to mind, "Won dolla?"
awkwardness 0
What are you, an idiot?
amazin67666 0
how the **** is it possible to forget your ABCs?!?!?
XOfiestypixie 0
I actually find the comments more amusing than the actual FML most of the time and this is a classic example. Most of you are calling the OP an idiot for forgetting THREE letters of the alphabet, and being laughed at by a bunch of 7 year old Chinese kids just beginning to learn english; but really how many of you HAVEN'T made stupid mistakes like that before? Like really, we're all human and therefore not perfect. I also find it amusing the ongoing debate whether his first language is English or Chinese (I know it's not an actual language, I'm just generalizing all of the dialects into one term). Does it really matter? Plenty of Chinese are perfectly bilingual, regardless if they can pronounce certain English sounds correctly or not. I will admit missing 3 letters is amusing, but to be pretty much harassed? That's a little much.
Hippie27 0
FAIL
mattmag 0
If you're a native English-speaker volunteering in China, this is awful. If you're Chinese and learned English in school, it's not THAT bad.