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Hi, do you want to invade my personal life?
Yeah.
It's not really that exciting.
I have some stupid stories that
I don't think you'll actually care about but if you wanna- if you wanna listen for some reason
go for it.
So, I just started college. And
currently I'm going to school
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
later on I start a late-start class that's Tuesday/Thursday. It will fill up
four hours on those two-
I have one class that's four hours long two days a week.
It's a four-hour class.
Yeah, I started college.
Actually, correction.
I started my spring classes. I've been going to college since last summer.
I'm on my way to becoming an elementary school teacher.
I want to teach children. I like children. They're-
they're so creative! I mean... So... I like third-graders! They're just so cute!
I have a little sister, she's still in elementary. She's in eighth grade.
That might be junior high for some of you.
I live out here in Arizona, man.
Sometimes we have a middle school and sometimes
we have a junior high.
I went to preschool,
K-8, which is elementary, high school,
and now I'm in college.
Holy crap!
There's this kid in my psychology class
that sat next to me on the first day and I didn't care it was just pshhh!
'Kay, let me say right now, he's an okay guy. He's okay.
He is fine.
But on first day I was a little worried.
So, the teacher she's a nice lady,
she's a little older- I don't know how old- but she's a little older-
she wore the coolest boots yesterday-
well she was taking role on the first day.
And there's this kid. He looks foreign.
He looks foreign, he sounds foreign.
And his last name is Tran.
Now let me tell you the key thing about "Tran,"
the last name "Tran."
She was not trying to
make fun of him or be rude. There was actually a student-teacher that
was here- here... that was at
the college a couple years ago and his last name was Tran. He was
Mr. Tran.
And he was a student-teacher, learning how to teach.
So my teacher asked him
I know a Tran.
Do you speak Cantonese?
Meanwhile the kid sitting next to me,
"Did that sound rude to you?" And he's, like, turning around to me,
asking me if that sounded rude.
I didn't know what he was talking about.
I didn't think that it sounded rude because I heard
another teacher talk about Mr. Tran...
Last year!
I knew about that already.
So...
Here's the kid sitting next to me and I have to explain
"I don't think it's rude. I don't think she's trying to be mean.
"I think maybe she just knows somebody with the last name.
And he spoke Cantonese."
And so he just turns back.
"I thought it sounded rude."
I was worried for this guy.
Because when we did the syllabus, you know, that thing that says all the rules,
she doesn't like electronics.
Meanwhile, he has his laptop on the desk. And, I mean, he read the first page
of the syllabus, flipped to the back, signed it and then handed that paper to her.
And then he started texting.
Right there. Not even hiding it. Why? Why?
I was so worried for him.
I'm like, "You're going to get kicked out! In the first week!"
Well, second day of school, he seemed okay. He was hiding his phone. He didn't pull his laptop out
and put it right on the desk.
Yeah, we had to do a matchmaking thing in that class and that was weird for me.
Because, uh, we had to
take all these little tiny descriptions of people
and
match them together.
And I'm sitting there, at my table with my people.
There's one guy over here that said hello to me on the first day of class- he's cool, he's cool.
And then we have this guy over here and I' like "Oh crap..." He's okay, though.
He's alright.
But when we started and I saw all the different ages, 'cause they listed ages on
those things, I'm like,
"Let's put the fifty-year-olds together.
'Cause that one's fifty-four and that one's fifty-six. And then everybody else is, like,
eighteen
to thirty-five years old."
Pfft!
I'm sorry. But forty years is a little much.
If you're in a relationship with someone that's fifteen years older than you,
I will question it, but you can do that.
Like, five years apart is usually my limit. I just want to put that in there.