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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The Final Countdown.

It is so weird to work with 12-14 year olds. It's kind of like being in junior high school again: being in class (I don't really teach; I'm just helping out, but sometimes it feels like I'm just making presentations to the class. Weird.), eating in the cafeteria (but en la mesa de los profesores), walking home (or sometimes taking the bus if I'm lazy), and surrounded by acne and awkward kids (except this time I don't have the acne nor am I an awkward kid--just an awkward 24-year old!).

On the bus ride home today, a student sat next to me and started playing his ringtones for me. Well, first he asked me what kind of American music I like. I struggled, and he cut me off--"Name a band to see if I recognize them." I don't know why, but I said, "Rilo Kiley." He didn't recognize them. After that, he wanted to go through each of his American music ringtones to see if I knew the song or not. "50 Cent, yeah. What is that, Good Charlotte?" "No, Simple Plan. They're Canadian." "Oh. Yeah, Eminem. Oh, the Austin Powers song." And then he played "Final Countdown" by Europe! I laughed, and he asked me why I laughed. "Es muy graciosa esa canción."

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I NEED that ringtone.

12/05/2006 10:16 AM  
Blogger anonymous said...

That's -exactly- the thought I had when he played it.

12/11/2006 2:51 AM  

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