I’m Bringing Sixy Back « Festina Lente

I’m Bringing Sixy Back

February 12, 2008 at 7:54 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I made the mistake of telling the artisans during our lesson on numbers during English classes; ‘make sure you say SIX and not SEX’, which was followed by lots of giggles. What can I say, I’m big on pronunciation. Sex is pretty much a cognate, it’s ’sexo’ in Spanish. Now every time we are practicing with numbers one of them will shout out SEX when its really time for SIX and the whole class cracks up and we can’t get going again for another five minutes. It’s a group of mostly middle aged women with a few men in their 20s, so you can imagine the dynamic.

I’d be annoyed except, were it not for the fact that I’m the teacher and supposed to be leading the class, I’d probably be spearheading the SEX-SIX jokes. Plus, if I took myself that seriously as an English teacher, I’d have to flush myself down a toilet or something. Seriously – who am I trying to fool here. At least I know they will never ever forget the number six.