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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, I got a perfect score on my French quiz, and I was told to have my mom sign it. What I didn't realize was that all the way at the bottom she wrote "Good Nathaly!" and "I love you!" surrounded by little hearts. The teacher hung it up anyway. 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, I had to make a poster for social studies. I decided to write "Nice ass" in hieroglyphics. Turns out my teacher can read hieroglyphics. FML
Today, my art teacher showed off a painting of his name he got in Japan. I can read Japanese, and it actually says "Old idiot". I really don't want to break it to him. 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
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, I gathered the courage and wrote a love letter to put in the girl I like's school bag, at the end of classes. I felt anxious for a response. Her bag turned out to be her cousin's, and I became a joke in the classroom. FML
Today, I cheated on a math test by writing a couple of equations on my hand. Totally satisfied, I handed my test in, feeling like I had aced it. As I was heading toward the door, I happily waved goodbye to my teacher. She saw everything. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
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theunwiseone 4
I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Italiae 7
No wonder she teaches algebra...
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theunwiseone 4
I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
x_ESCADORA_x 0
U jelly brah?
eminemchick 19
someone delete this unruly bastard
flockz 20
oh unwise one, teach me, teach me how to be japanese.
TheNewGuy03 29
Man, I'm dark as a motherfucking solar eclipse under a dark blanket in the dead of night in the middle of the woods, but I'm Japanese as can be, goddammit.
shovels 0
? ? ? ?
Yngve_fml 9
Forever Alone. :( Haha, that's sad.
stellimonster 0
sorry, but ill have to agree with 26. some (avtually, a LOT) of these comments do belong to uneducated whities.
I_lost_the_game 25
You RACIST bastard, you don't even have correct grammar! Capital S! I'll! Actually! Calling white people uneducated... Honestly, why only white people? I'm not even white, yet your comment infuriated me! ... Have I overreacted?
TheMalygos 21
你是吗？ I don't think I wrote that right
sux4u121 10
Ouch dont plan on learning this year
May525XoXo 8
How come your chinese teacher can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese?
evilplatypus 39
Just because she IS Chinese doesn't mean she speaks/reads any Chinese. I'm Irish and don't know a lick of Gaelic.
imaninja1 9
The whole point of the fml is tgat ops japenese is soo bad it looks like op was trying to write in chinese
xxkittyswaggww 1
because shes an algebra teacher
May525XoXo 8
Well if she doesn't speak or read it, then why did she even make that compliment? You're saying the teacher was just pretending to know it was Chinese when she was really wrong? She's lucky OP didn't say it was really Japanese because that would've been embarrassing for her.
muin 12
The kanji is the same for japanese and Chinese. They just pronounce them differently.
Mokiikom_fml 8
Not all kanji are the same between Chinese & Japanese (some were simplified in Japanese etc.), but many are still exactly the same even nowadays. If the teacher saw just those kanji and there wasn't any hiragana etc., then there was no way to know whether it was Chinese or Japanese.
knight0748 5
57 got it right, kanji means words of Han, aka Chinese. Unless op got more than a few words on her cover, like a sentence, it would confusing for anyone.
LeoMaro 1
I'm Chinese, and if I saw basic kanji, I wouldn't be able to tell if it's Chinese or Japanese either. There has to be hiragana and katakana characters to tell the difference. Arigatou everyone.
THswagPLAYA 1
read the beginning sentence
Italiae 7
No wonder she teaches algebra...
Laurenlou 24
Wow your "Chinese" teacher must not know Chinese very well! FYL!
rottentomatoes 7
Yeah, I know. Japanese have a lot of rounded symbols, Chinese has none.
emilymac420 0
wow. what school is that so I don't send my kid there?
laughpuppy 0
She a math teacher and Japanese and Chinese are similar in writing and stuff?
FUGYU 2
Chinese and Japanese look very different although about half of Japanese characters are the same as traditional Chinese, the other half are squiggles. But every Japanese sentence is complete with both kinds, so time to find a new Chinese teacher.
Mokiikom_fml 8
1) The teacher teaches algebra, not Chinese. 2) It was kanji on the cover, not a sentence, so no hiragana there. Otherwise it would have obviously have to be mentioned and the FML would have no meaning. 3) Learn to read the whole story before leaving such comments.
i_wuz_nver_here 31
You and your teacher both seem like dumbasses... I see a beautiful friendship on the horizon.
amerwin 3
Bring candy for your class. Odds are someone will start being your friend.