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Jobellebelle from Singapore asks "What are some of the weirdest questions your students have asked you?"
Ooooh, I'm gonna go first. Ok, I wouldn't really consider this a weird question, as so much maybe,
like an English misunderstanding.
[S] A very interesting question. [M] Yes.
Well, what happened was when I first came to Korea, Rainism was really popular.
And part of the song, there's a part where he talks about his magic stick.
[S] Magic Stick! (In a singsongy voice)
[M sings and snaps fingers] I'm gonna be a b-bad boy. I gonna be a bad boy.
[M continues singing] [S] Well, the 'Rainism' part is irrelevant. It's the 'magic stick' part.
So the question they had was that the line in English talked about Rain's magic stick,
but in Korean, the lyrics were talking about how he's gonna make this girl ride his magic stick.
[S] That's right. [M] And she would shake.
Now, apparently, Rain received a bit of criticism from people saying this was a bit too sexy.
But, my students didn't understand why it was sexy because they said to me, "A 'magic stick' is like Harry Potter."
[S] Yeah [M] Right. [S] Here's my magic wand, I whip it out of my pants and I shoot a big white beam at you.
[M] Expecto Patronus! (haha) [S] It's Patronum.
[M] So, I was trying to explain to my students about the magic stick, but they also had another question for me,
and at the same time, Fiddy cent released his single for...
[S] Don't you mean 50 cent? (Pronounced fifty cent not fiddy cent) 50, fif-ty cent.
(Crickets chirping) [M] Thought it was Fiddy.
[S] No. [M] No? [S] No.
[M] Sorry. He talks about licking a lollipop or not him specifically, but a girl licking a lollipop. [S] Correct.
[M] I think perhaps his 'lollipop'. [S] Yes. [M] Yes.
So, my students said to me that they were wondering what lollipop meant
because they thought a lollipop is just like a candy or something.
And, I really, now that I think back on it, were my students trolls? (Dun, Dun music)
(laughs) [S] Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. You know, you don't ask about 'magic sticks' and 'lollipops' in the same sentence.
Your students were definitely trolling you.
[M] But they are sooo sweet, like they were very straight-faced.
There was no giggling and so, I tried to explain it. But, at the time, I didn't speak enough Korean
to use the proper terms. So, I was trying to explain like penis and like boys and girls and stuff like that.
[S] So you see there Joon Young, when a man and women love each other... [M] And they were so like,....
I eventually just resorted to drawing a diagram on the board. (Hangs head in shame)
[S] Um, how detailed was this diagram? [M] (shameful voice) It wasn't very detailed.
[S] Was there like any prickliness at the bottom? [M] Noooo.
A plain old simple stick with balls. [S] Was an arrow pointing upwards?
[M] It was like that. Yes it was! [S] There you go.
[M] There was like an arrow pointing upwards. So my students were like, "Ohhhhhh."
They turned a little red in the face, so I feel as though they weren't trolling me.
I don't think it was a weird question; I just think it was very awkward for me at least.
[S] Now, my question is a little bit similar to that.
Now, I had a policy at lunchtime that I wanted students to be able to SPEAK English outside of the classroom
and just like regular conversation. [M] Comfortably.
[S] So, during lunch, when I was in my room, I would leave the doors open
so students could come in and talk and try to practice their English.
And, there were a bunch of really rowdy boys who would always come to my class.
They would want to hang out there and ask me questions about life in Canada and whatnot.
I found it really interesting because these were usually the trouble maker students.
They were a bit more bolder with the questions they wanted to ask me. Now, their English wasn't perfect at the time,
so, I didn't really fully understand the question. I think I guessed their meaning.
We were on a conversation, and they said something like, "Oh. This guy has a girlfriend."
I'm like good for you for having a girlfriend; I'm happy for you.
And then, they ask the question, "Teacher, what size is your?"
"What is your size?" So, I said, "Do you mean shoe size? Sambeck (300)" They're like, "No. No, teacher,"
"teacher, no no, no shoe size. Your size, size."
And I'm like, I think I know what they are infering because I see some of them giggling in the back.
[M] Are you being trolled as well? [S] I think might have been being trolled by some of my students.
(Dum, dum noise) [M] We were trolled.
So, then I wound up saying, "Baek gu sha bow" (300 or 195 cm) because that's my height.
"Baek gu sha bow!!! Huhhhh!!" They started high fiving each other.
[M] But, what does 'Baek gu sha bow' mean? [S] 'Baek gu sha bow' means 195 cm.
Because that's my height in Korea, I'm 195 cm.
I don't think they were really excited by my height per se, but were thinking about something else.
So, they all high fived each other and left the classroom.
Now, this only happened once. I don't have students regularly asking me the size of my junk
Or referring to the size of my junk. So, I can't say that this is very common.
But, it was a very interesting question they asked.
[M] I think it's because you hung out with those guys a lot that they felt more open with you, right?
[S] Maybe. [M] Yeah. [S] So that's it for this TL;DR.
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