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Gonz

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Freya said:
Language is just words I think. There are words I don't like because of the motivation behind the words but in general - eh. Though I appreciate that my voice doesn't sound that way and I used to almost never swear. Monkey-boy has had a very bad influence on that.

I remember once when I was teaching - a class of 15/16 year olds who were considered by the school to be so problematic they had put them ALL in the same class to prevent them from disrupting other classes and called them 'the cess pit' - and I had drawn the 'short straw'. I adored those kids and we had a good relationship, so when I had a lesson observation they tried really hard to behave well and make me look good. So I have a lesson observation going on with someone from the local authority (and I am HATING this obviously because who wants to be watched) and we are reading a poem about vultures that is on the exam syllabus. It's all about vultures picking at a corpse - eating the entrails, plucking the eyes, whatever. So I read it out loud and then ask "so, what have we learned about the vultures". A child whose nickname is genuinely 'Brickhead' raises a hand. And I am thinking holy crap - hand raising? They really ARE on good behavior. So I'm feeling confident when I say "Chris, go ahead..." and he REALLY thinks he's trying to be helpful and good by answering a question... and he says...

"That they're FUCKING dirty c*nts, miss"

And of course I laugh until I cry. Which probably isn't what the observer from the local authority thought I should be doing in that situation.... :/
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Okay, it’s been over a week and I’m still thinking about Brickhead. Just, like, wondering what he’s up to. What he’s doing with himself.
 
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Gonz said:
Okay, it’s been over a week and I’m still thinking about Brickhead. Just, like, wondering what he’s up to. What he’s doing with himself.
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Frighteningly, he's now a parent (because I'm old). I just looked him up on facebook for you. He looks like he's living a perfectly nice life so great! He did considerably better in his state exams than I had even hoped he would. I am not really sure where he went from there, honestly. Tended to be mainly my girls that wanted to keep in touch after they left school.
 
Gonz

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#846
#846
Freya said:
Frighteningly, he's now a parent (because I'm old). I just looked him up on facebook for you. He looks like he's living a perfectly nice life so great! He did considerably better in his state exams than I had even hoped he would. I am not really sure where he went from there, honestly. Tended to be mainly my girls that wanted to keep in touch after they left school.
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Good for him! Sounds nice; settle down, raise a couple of little Bricklets.
 
Auri

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#847
#847
Gonz said:
See, I find that interesting. It does make some sense, being a polyglot as you are, and knowing your background. But still interesting. One of those things where I just can't quite imagine what it would feel like.

I myself feel very tied to a specific place, California. I'd even describe myself as Californian before American (as I'm sure you gathered from my long ranting pm, lol). I've lived in a few cities, but all of them on the southern or central Californian coast. I mean, I have literally never had a home more than ten minutes away from a beach (I miss the apartment I had with my wife, we couldn't quite see the ocean, but we could hear the sea lions at night). And I've been to a few other places in the US, but most of my leisure travel has just been up the coast into Northern Cali or down into Baja. Like, the only place in the world that I could ever consider home is this really narrow, only a few miles wide, (but long as fuck) strip of land.
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I don't mean it very seriously, like I wouldn't use that label to describe myself, there's only 4-5 labels I like to put on myself, and a country/citiizenship/continent where I live isn't one of them. I'm not the biggest fan of the concept of patriotism (the pride of being born somewhere), but because of the languages I know and the cultures I've experienced, I feel like I can be associated with Europe in general. There's still a lot I haven't experienced though (all the other continents).
Which doesn't mean I could live anywhere in Europe, it is too vast and too varied. My personality fits the Scandinavian lifestyle/mentality the best imo. It's weird, that feeling was already there prior to me living there, but it was much exacerbated when I finally did. I had never been more sure about something in my entire life.
So I totally understand why a person may feel like a certain culture or something suits them better. :)
California is still pretty huge, unlike my tiny hole of a country. lol

Ash600 said:
I'd say only a hint of French, splash of German with undertones of Baltic/Eastern European.
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Damn it. You can hear the Eastern there? *huh lol
 
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#848
#848
Auri said:
I don't mean it very seriously, like I wouldn't use that label to describe myself, there's only 4-5 labels I like to put on myself, and a country/citiizenship/continent where I live isn't one of them. I'm not the biggest fan of the concept of patriotism (the pride of being born somewhere), but because of the languages I know and the cultures I've experienced, I feel like I can be associated with Europe in general. There's still a lot I haven't experienced though (all the other continents).
Which doesn't mean I could live anywhere in Europe, it is too vast and too varied. My personality fits the Scandinavian lifestyle/mentality the best imo. It's weird, that feeling was already there prior to me living there, but it was much exacerbated when I finally did. I had never been more sure about something in my entire life.
So I totally understand why a person may feel like a certain culture or something suits them better. :)
California is still pretty huge, unlike my tiny hole of a country. lol


Damn it. You can hear the Eastern there? *huh lol
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Yeah, I can. For me it stands out.
 
Nick

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#857
#857
@Bradamante that was good!

I think this thread goes to prove more than any other that we are our own worst critics! Each one of us is not fond of our own recording, but others enjoy them. I figure if it brings a smile to just one persons face or makes them feel less alone, than it's worth the self doubt and blah blah blah I go through in my head.
 
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