Miss Hetrick's Quotebook: Chapter 3

So it has been a long time since I have shared quotes. Some of them are from my students, some are from my friends, and a few of them are mine.

-Two students were acting out a scenario between a doctor and a patient.
Agata: I am going to stethascope you.
(a minute later)
Agata: You have lupus.
Slywia: But it's never lupus!

-Agata: I have a carpenter in my bedroom.
Miss Colleen: You are lucky!
Natalia: Do you mean carpet?

-In a skit where the animals start talking. . .
Aga as a goldfish in a gangsta accent: Yo man! Why did you forget to me feed? Can't you see I'm hungry? Why did you get me if you aren't going to feed me? And why am I alone? I am a sexy goldfish. I need a woman.

-Yesterday I was in a hurry to get out the door. I put my shoes on in the dark and didn't think twice about it. The first thing I did when I got to school was go to visit the director because I had a question. In her office I tripped on a cord and looked down at my feet. I saw two ballet flats. One brown. . .and one black.
Colleen: Oh my! Look what I did!
Director: You have two different shoes on! You are in love! And you are!
(In Poland there is a saying that when a person wears two different shoes that he/she is in love. My director knows about my boyfriend, so she thought this was really funny, which is was.)

-I shared my mismatched shoes with the other teachers.
Gabi: I had a friend who wore two different shoes for three days. You are doing okay so far.

-Then in class I read Oh, the Places You'll Go with 3a. I asked them what they thought, and one of the best students in the class says:
A: I don't mean to be rude, but we have a question.
Miss Colleen: Yes, of course. Ask.
A: In the story it says to be careful of knowing your left from your right. Did you wear two different shoes to show this?

-When talking about if any of the students want to be rock or pop stars. . .
Juliusz: He is the next Troy Bolton.

-Miss Colleen: What is the most dangerous thing or place in your house?
Kamila: The walls.

-Miss Colleen: Where is the safest place in your house?
Pawel: The kitchen.
Miss Colleen: Really? What about the knives?
Pawel: It's where the food is.

-Zosia, the four year-old I meet with weekly, is finally starting to grasp that I speak English. She now asks me how to say countless words in Polish.
Zosia: Jak to powiedzieć "ouwa" po angielsku?
Colleen: Ouch.
Zosia: Ja mam ouch.
(In Poland, they say "ouwa" when they are hurt. She was asking how to say "ouwa" in English, and then told me that she had an ouch.)

-I tend to forget that there are a decent number of people who speak functional English in Poland. Many young sales associates at the mall speak enough English to communicate. Last weekend I went shopping with a friend. . . .
Colleen: Look at this purse. It's huge. You could fit a child in it. (As I unzip the purse to look in) Hi, mom!
The sales clerk busts out laughing. Whoops! Forgot she could understand me.

I hope you enjoyed reading some of the ridiculous dialogue that happens in my life.

Blessings,
Colleen