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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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enonymous 9
I'm more stunned the username is Miguel and he's taking Chinese classes and knows how to write Japanese. I was for sure thinking the username would have had a hello kitty reference
ohmandapants 17
Do you not know how to read?
effedml 5
That's what you get for underestimating Miguel.
NomNomMuffin 5
Hahahaha smart Chinese
damnalltheasshol 0
theres this thing called balls get some.
kickblocker 18
So you're saying that saying to a teacher "That's Japanese, not Chinese" is ballsy?
sydneybeau 7
chinese, Japanese, pop pop, oopsies.
sux4u121 10
OP is in algebra! The teacher teaches algebra not chineese the teacher simply is chineese
TheNewGuy03 29
My guess is that the symbols on OP's notebook were kanji, which are essentially traditional Chinese characters. Japanese also makes use of some simplified Chinese characters; therein lies the difference between Korean hanja and kanji. However, hiragana and katakana, though both being the progeny of Chinese characters, look vastly different from both simplified and traditional Chinese characters (with a few exceptions). Conversely, the teacher could very well have the mental capacity of a doorstop, and simply doesn't know the difference between Chinese and Japanese (as their sentence structures are very different from each other). Sorry for writing a ******* book, goddammit. Sue me.
interpol8 3
It's because in Japanese the Kanji characters ARE Chinese characters copied over. This happened to promote trade and political relations with China several hundred years ago. Pay attention in world history class, you uncultured *****
ohmandapants 17
Yeah because that's what everyone learned in world history class right? Way to be a self-righteous bitch. Sorry if the rest of our world history classes weren't as "great" as yours.
knight0748 5
45, that's cuz your education sux... And also the world history we so promote here in the USA really means a whole lot of western european history and a few sentences on Asian, middle eastern and African history.
JeffreyLH 5
Tell em man!
iAmScrubs 19
Now that you and your teacher are friends, you can go out for Chinese food sometime. He/She will love the sushi that they serve.
TheNewGuy03 29
Maybe they can enjoy some kimchi with their sushi and fried rice.
Lightbulb830 4
They should go to Golden Corral. Since Golden Corral is a buffet and there are Chinese buffets, they might as well be the same thing.
eminemchick 19
yeah she might not know chinese, just have born there or the teachers parents were chinese.
xFaust_fml 12
If she/he wrote random symbols then it's possible they happened to be chinese. The Japanese partly use the same ones. And chinese is a vast and complicated language, chinese people don't actually know every existing symbol. And maybe the teacher is from China, knows her culture, can appreciate a nice calligraphy, but can't speak the language. Doesn't mean she's dumb. Anyway, we don't have all the facts. But I understand that op wouldn't correct her, though not his/her reasons. Correcting a teacher, though highly satisfying, is always risky...
chellyX92 8
I'm in college and a lot of students here LOVE correcting the professors. I don't get it. Once a girl corrected the teacher over a 0.00002 mistake. The teacher then spent 5 minutes redoing her math just to prove to the student she was in fact right. They waste time.