Student: Can our community be an Aslan?
Me: An Aslan? Don't you mean Narnia?
Student: Um no, Aslan.
Me: You want your country to be a magical lion?
Student: What?! NO! Aslan!! Like a piece of land surrounded by water!
Me: OH Island!! Got it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Lost in Translation
My students will often get extremely frustrated with me when I do not understand what they are saying. However, other times we both just end up laughing over how ridiculous some of our conversations can be. For example, the other day I had my students working on creating their own utopia that they will present to the class next week when a student came up to me with a rather interesting question - here is how the conversation played out:
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