After a quick visit to Australia to see my sister successfully married, I returned to Burkina to meet my new English students (that's students of English, not students from England). As usual, I started the class by getting the students to ask me ten questions, which serves as an introduction and helps me get to know their language level.As usual, one of the first questions was, 'How old are you?"
"Guess," I replied.
"Forty-six," a student said.
This response is not uncommon, although forty-six was at the upper end of the usual estimates. The response started a conversation about ages, in which they told me how difficult it was to guess the ages of white people.
"Of course it's difficult," one of my students said. "You all look the same."
Jon
2 comments:
That is crazy. A lady in Vietnam told me that we all look the same too. The strange thing is that they are the ones who all look the same.
it must have been the effects of jetlag, Jon
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