yay! i love my student! ole
Tell u all ah!!! i love my student!!!!!! cos i am giving tuition to the deaf at singapore association fo the deaf every saturday. I teach chinese. the classroom situation is there is a lectureer in front esplaining all the chinese characters in English, then there is a interpreter beside him listening to what he says in english and signing out his words to the deaf. Then for each deaf student, there is a volunteer beside him taking notes, answering queries. I am the volunteer beside the deaf student.My student is a japanese american called Kenichi. 30 plus years old, looks cute, great body, married with a 10 month old kid. He is one merry guy man, everyday happy happy one. Back in the US, he use to make 53000 usd a year but now in singapore he only earns 1k a month. He is currently writing abook for the deaf cos he say not enough books written for the deaf. He wants to compare the quality of life of deaf in the US and deaf in Singpore. Of cos, singapore sucks for the deaf la cos in the US got some acts enacted to protect the deaf. The news programme here wouldnt even allow english subtitles to cater to deaf's needs cos they say subtitles too expensive.
Well, some girls dun like him cos he likes to hug and touch like an american. i didnt like it initially but then i find that actually he dun have the eat tofu feel, very fren fren, dun have the se feel at all, so i dun mind. Ha, they even ask me if i want to switch students cos he too touchy. but then i like my student better than the others leh.
He always say life is short, all that stuff, thats why should think dirty stuff and be happy. Very merry leh. some deaf arnt like that, cos of their disability, some quite low on confidence, then rather cynical. Kenichi is not bothered bout these stuff, happy happy, being deaf like so what.
Then today he tell me he may get a bus partner and go africa to set up a school for african deaf kids. Wah, so so impressive. I think he is a great guy. Merry and kind. Then he tell me some places in africa having civil war and stuff but still not scared. wanna go alone. well the pay there is miserable but he dun mind, aiii, wat a great guy. like come out from some novel like that, not bothered bout daily troubles, just follow his heart ha. But then like that not good for his wife and baby. well americans are individulistic ba, not like the chinese. he says he noes wat to do bout his family so din ask more.
When i started teaching him, piang, write so much on paper lor, cos i am not receptive to other people's signing. Now hoho, teach him 2 months liao, got some mo qi, so dun really use paper and pen liao oso can understand him, at least more than half of what he says. so happy!!!!
but honestly ha, his chinese sucks. he dun practice at home, homework always half done, so forgets easily. next lesson they are going to have a 70% exam. piang i look at what they are going to test and i start getting worried lor, then beside me i see him still happy happy, not worried at all lor though he like so weak at chinese man. Can somehow understand why mothers are so bothered bout the kids' grades, its like going to the exams yourself lor, u really wanna pass and stuff. so i do feel a bit of anxiety haha. this tueday giving him more tution. hopefully will help. I already tell him, if he dun complete his homework by then, i will go straight home, dun care bout him liao. then he say i am his new wife. Ha he always talk bout dirty stuff. eh u all might not be able to imagine but if for example gabriel says "catch any ball?" then everybody laugh cos the interpreter would have to terp it out. Then kenichi after understanding what was said will join in the fun by putting his hands on his pants where his balls are and put a finger up, to show the erecting thingy. well that is kenichi.
Haha, i like my student, although i rather lousy, din make his chinese better piah. In two more saturdays, the course will end, feel abit sad. ha, then the two of us always slow down the class cos either he is signing to me bout some corny or i niaoing him back. then thus always write very slow. sometimes we crap liao, then both start dreaming and forget have to practice the charecter on the paper, then very paiseh haha. me more paiseh ha cos i al suppose to teach him.
Yay!!! i like him. well next lesson onward, i am going to be interpreter. wha lau, i d**n scared lor, cos really can see that i am not as good as the other chosen ones (chao wei and alvin very zai) i suck at interpreting signs though i can sign wat the lecturer is saying. kenichi says he is going to try to make me laugh. Well, i dun noe, if he can go africa without hesitation of the dangers, then i should try to be braver and be a good interp
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