Friday, January 30, 2009

Why did he not humor?

I participate in our schools teaching students. For training students in listening and speaking ability in Chinese, after each class I have to come up with 45 minutes, from students to use language to tell a little story, it is best humor interesting joke. Students are all very happy, active participation. Of course, to enable every student has the opportunity to exercise, I arranged for a general rotation table. First, the turn to an American student said, when people applaud him, as usual, came to power (to the podium), he has seriously said that he is a serious person, not humorous, not to tell jokes. We all stand in amazement of 1:00.I also wonder child, not to say that most Americans do let their hair down, how it will not be humorous? However, I immediately said to him, no joke, can also be other speakers. He said it was not ready. He barely naturally bad, I called the next student.
The student is Chloe Handbag, a Spanish-speaking joke, “Woman is the ball”: When 20-year-old is football, there were 22 personal rivalry; 30-year-old when basketball, reduced to 10 people scramble; when 40-year-old table tennis, on the Only two people competing for a; When 50-year-old is golf, only one person, but also played much of a pole. We listened to laugh. I note that American students, though he did not very much laughter, but there are also 34 minutes of laughter. The next class.
Hall’s second class, as usual, also a student, please speak. Unexpectedly, the American students raised their hands to say that I was not talking about a joke, I do not know can talk about? I said can, of course, they asked him to take the lead in applause came to power. Said after he took office, I talk about why I would not say that the experience of a joke.He said that he more than three years old when his parents divorced, he told his father. Later, her father married again. His stepmother’s relations have been not very good. His primary school, one day, stepmother of good spirits, has done a lot of delicious dishes. Meal, step-mother asked one by one, she do not eat delicious food. Asked her father said Chloe Bags; asked his brother, his brother said, delicious. Finally, he asked, he would like to joke and stepmother, then smiled and did not eat. But stepmother furious, saying that many of his nasty words. He would like to explain, but also do not understand the explanation, then cried, and the family did not eat rice.From this incident, he will no longer do not want to say a joke, and since then has become a serious sense of humor who do not.
He is coming to China to learn Chinese, Chinese level is not high, the stresses of course, there is no way I wrote the above Chang Xiao. But this means we listen to understand. When he stepped down when finished, we were warmly applauded, as usual, but no one laughed out. General, students finish every time, I have to say a few words from the language point of view reviews ceremony, then to the American students say that I had time I do not know what else I can say.

I just feel a bit heavy. He aboard their seats, and I said, thank you for giving us a speech that contains a profound truth of the story. This obviously is not from the language point of view of evaluation.
The next few days, he has been talking about this experience linger in my mind. I am not a child’s education workers, but the story can be seen, children in their growing up, he experienced a major event not only will his future growth and how much the personality formation of the Chloe Bag, or will give him the future growth and personality formation result in any significant effect. The American students will not be referred to as their own humorous personality is not innate;In fact he had with stepmother humorous look like, but it was stepmother humorous misunderstandings - is clearly a misunderstanding - shattered. This little soul he planted the seeds of humor, or jokes will be denounced the seeds, which germinate son, grew up together, he certainly would never want to, dare not, will not be a humorous. It also solidified into his character.
This is a foreign story, but regardless of the parents, or for doing the work of children’s education, I would like to have a profound significance of reference and inspiration.
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Sad holiday

No rest for three weeks and then the boss, please leave a few days, seven days the holidays, I excitedly to set foot on the way home.
The car will be able to home more than two hours, and can I have half a year did not go back to see the. Than white-collar wage-earners are always busy, Monday to Saturday, North Korea eight evening, every day, a rare day of rest the end can only go to sleep is a luxury home, and the occasional “lightning” to visit relatives, parents also more than happy to blame: “stool did not take heat, but also ran, tossing a blind.”

 
This time, finally able to make more than a few days at home, and parents looked stunned: “how come back? Not have to work?” Dropped a “vacation” I will sleep the end, the working population is tired of life, which than in home happy.
 happy holidays to enjoy for a couple of costume jewelry, my mother first sit still, a look of concern: “Mei head, you do not go back ah? Do you even have to work overtime the National Day that did not leave, the New Year can only stay at home last week, and now we have to go to work here, how can you suddenly have so many holidays? okay? “

The third day, I was lying on a sofa watching TV, my dad is also running out of patience, “said in the above can be mixed feed, right? Private flats is not always reliable, you do not spend money freely, and at least we have to keep enough half the cost of living in it. “
The atmosphere at home more and more wrong. The fourth day it is my turn to Columbia to speak at the dinner table: “Wang’s daughter, Board of laid-off, and others, however prestigious university undergraduate students, the background also did not expect the work will be lost.”I had a chance to respond to my mother’s tears have been kept down out: “Mei head back as soon as possible to find work, all day hiding in the home is not a way to, ah, so much more than the bad people idle. Do you want us to raise the fashion jewelry? neighbors are talking about you … … “
This is where things with which ah? They would rather not believe my own eyes in every possible way to explain my rationale, but also constantly worried about my livelihood, in order to form a clean, I have resorted to the lowest level of the approach, so that my brother called me at my company asked me.

I would like so they will always believe me all right, to lay down their phone more tense after the whole family, non-rush I can not go back: “You are the boss at work, what do you leave off? Longer stay in their homes, their jobs have to were snatched, and people looking for work the streets are. “
After dinner I was not even pushed to bring his family out of the escort to the station, parting my mother throat also pulled me roar: “Do not come back on after the fine and do not waste money, the New Year to come back on the list, important work!”
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