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
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Today, I kissed my 3.5 GPA goodbye because my English teacher was too caught up planning her parrot's birthday party to put in the credit I deserve for three different essays I completed for her class. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". 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, it was the last day of school, and I said goodbye to one of my students. She then told me how to correctly pronounce her name. I'd said it wrong all year. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, in algebra, I took out my notebook. My Chinese teacher was so impressed with my "Chinese" writings on the cover that I'm now her "favorite student". Those "Chinese" symbols are actually Japanese, but I wanted someone to like me so badly that I didn't correct her. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
Today, I had a Chinese test. Our teacher decided to wait until yesterday to tell us about it because she "knew" we wouldn't study anyway and she didn't want to stress us out. I'm pretty sure I failed. FML
Today, I collected my students' notes in class to check them. One girl, who is always drawing weird anime crap in her sketchbook, turned in just one piece of paper that read, "FUCK YOUR CLASS." FML
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MWidderAUDI 14
i bet you swore after that.
hipsterhunter 9
As a speaker of Chinese and Spanish, I can say firsthand that lots of innocent words in a language can end up sounding like others, especially when there's an accent involved and you're not careful. Try to talk to your student and help her understand the meaning of what she said, how it shouldn't be used in a professional setting, etc... and maybe work on her pronunciation! Alternatively, find out who thought it would be funny to teach her that word. Then kick their ass.
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DessaChan 9
maybe she meant to say awesome lol
onorexveritas 24
I would've liked to hear that
nickob96 25
Thats ******* dumb... Try to explain your self and hopefully they will understand if they don't with 'what a ******* day'
tj4234 36
This reminds me of a story from my local area. Back before women got the vote in the 1920s, very few people where I'm from spoke English. An Englishman moved the the area, and decided to run for Parliament and become the MP for that area. Since most of the people didn't speak English, he asked a friend to write his speech in the local language (Gaelic). He asked him to write 'things will not be right until all women get the vote' (vote is bòdadh in Gaelic). On the day he stood up in the town hall in front of all these women and said 'cha robh cus an ceart gus an d' fhuar na bhoirreanich a'bhod.' That roughly translates as 'things will not be right until all women get the dick'.
zfchatroulette 24
That made me laugh waaaaaayyy too hard #49
marshyq 8
at least she did say, "OP is a ******* bitch!"
HeartOfLead 24
*where, *your, and *you, whew, that was easier than it looked, maybe you should give it a go!
Roo79 1
Well it was probably funny if it was in context! How was the rest of her essay?
fan6879 3
As a Chinese I must say, most Chinese students know the exact mean of "****" earlier than they know "duck" or "fuel". Thanks Hollywood movies.
Helped 35
Sounds like they take their jobs way too seriously since they fired you for that.
InnocentWings 13
I certainly hope you had the chance to explain the situation and get this resolved. FYL through.