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Jul. 23rd, 2010 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
One of the boys today: "What's with you guys and war stuff?!"
(I almost wanted to hug him after he said that. The rest of the kids still haven't figured out the difference between "Kamikaze" and "Banzai". One of those is something that a suicide pilot might yell and the other is Japanese.)
So apparently, yesterday was a gongshow while I was gone. For some reason, the kiddies started to chant and call the other volunteer assistant names ("R's an imp!" "R's a barbarian!", etc.), and the teacher had to get all Modern Germany on them and banned the words "Hitler" and "Nazis". R had already taken a day off on Tuesday because he wasn't feeling well, but he was absent again today. The supervisor said he'd called in with a fever, but it's easy to wonder whether it's actually because of the tormenting (or both). (After all, the teacher told me that at one point, R had gotten quite offended and almost lost it.)
Today the kiddies kept asking about where R was. They wanted him around so they could annoy him, of course.
(I almost wanted to hug him after he said that. The rest of the kids still haven't figured out the difference between "Kamikaze" and "Banzai". One of those is something that a suicide pilot might yell and the other is Japanese.)
So apparently, yesterday was a gongshow while I was gone. For some reason, the kiddies started to chant and call the other volunteer assistant names ("R's an imp!" "R's a barbarian!", etc.), and the teacher had to get all Modern Germany on them and banned the words "Hitler" and "Nazis". R had already taken a day off on Tuesday because he wasn't feeling well, but he was absent again today. The supervisor said he'd called in with a fever, but it's easy to wonder whether it's actually because of the tormenting (or both). (After all, the teacher told me that at one point, R had gotten quite offended and almost lost it.)
Today the kiddies kept asking about where R was. They wanted him around so they could annoy him, of course.
