Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Conversation in class:
Student – Teacher, are you married?
Me – No, I am not. That’s why you greet me as Ms SgFairy, right? ‘Miss’ means not married.
Student – Then Teacher, you got boyfriend?
Me – Haha, no, I don’t have a boyfriend.
Student – But why? Teacher very pretty mah.
I swear this really happened.
When the kid asked me about the whole boyfriend thing, I was so tempted to reply, “No, I dun have what you exactly call a boyfriend… it’s complicated, but yes, we do sleep together and have great sex, so I suppose that sorta counts as a boyfriend thing.”
But I didn’t…. not coz I didn’t want to traumatize the kid, but coz I wanted to avoid the question which would definitely come after that: “Teacher, ‘sleep together’ means what ah?”
I wasn’t hired to teach sex education.
Me – No, I am not. That’s why you greet me as Ms SgFairy, right? ‘Miss’ means not married.
Student – Then Teacher, you got boyfriend?
Me – Haha, no, I don’t have a boyfriend.
Student – But why? Teacher very pretty mah.
I swear this really happened.
When the kid asked me about the whole boyfriend thing, I was so tempted to reply, “No, I dun have what you exactly call a boyfriend… it’s complicated, but yes, we do sleep together and have great sex, so I suppose that sorta counts as a boyfriend thing.”
But I didn’t…. not coz I didn’t want to traumatize the kid, but coz I wanted to avoid the question which would definitely come after that: “Teacher, ‘sleep together’ means what ah?”
I wasn’t hired to teach sex education.
