Showing posts with label One Direction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One Direction. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Questioning Her Mental Capacity

One of my students is now at university, and was telling me about another girl in one of her lectures. 

Girl: ... And she, just, like, constructed a fort from tables and chairs.  For no apparent reason.
Me: Why?
Girl: No idea.
Me: ... Does she do architecture? [no] Engineering? [no] So... why?
Girl: I have no idea.  But, we think she might have some... mental problems... I mean, she likes One Direction and Justin Bieber so I do question her mental capactity.

Gold.

Friday, 23 November 2012

Concerts

11-yr-old girl, in the middle of playing something, stopped and asked, rather urgently:

Girl: Oh!  Did you go to the Coldplay concert?
Me: Um...No... Did you?
Girl [dejected]: No...  So now I have to wait another 3 years for the next one. 
Me: Ah, yeah... that's really ... sad...
Girl [energetic again]: Ooh, One Direction?
Me: Ah, no.  You?
Girl [shaking head]: No.
Me: Is this a sad shake of your head?
Girl [surprised]: Yes!
Me: Um... Okay... That's... sad... for you... I guess.

She shook her head in a "You've just got no idea but I'm an 11-yr-old girl so you should listen to me" way, and kept playing from where she'd left off before.