Kids Say The Darndest Things.

One of the games I play with the kids as a warmup is the ol' "Who/What Am I?" game. It's basically a riddle game; I describe myself and the kids have to guess "Are you ----?". The following are two episodes of this game that actually happened this week. *Note. most of the kids, as you might very well do when listening to a language you are just beginning to learn, pick out certain key words they know and skip over the words they don't know. Which explains what happened.

"What am I? I can be short, I can be long.
I can be small, I can be big!
I am in every school and house.
I know everything! There are many of me in the library" [answer: a book]

One 7th grade girl, Reina: "Are you poo?"

Mr. Tadachi, who I was teaching with that day, thought of this one:
"Who am I? I was the president of South Africa.
I fought for freedom and equality. I was in prison for 26 years.
I am over 80 years old. I am a black man. Who am I?"

Mischevious boy: "Michael Jackson!" and then did a little dance.