We're having a Sports Day at my school soon. Each form had to come up with a team and students to volunteer for different events. There's this one girl, who is an angry young woman, constantly in trouble, but I've put her down for shot put as others claimed she was really good at it.
This morning she came to school after a few days of absence, and I broke the news to her.
"Ain't doing that!" she said "You can't flipping make me!"
An expected reaction, granted, but I wasn't going to give up easily.
"Oh come on, it's just one small event and I hear you're really good at it. Come on, please?"
I have to say, I did expect this to be met with another rude outburst of anger. Instead I heard: "All right then miss. I'll do it."
I still think I must have been dreaming!
This does not, of course, mean that she'll actually show up on the day though...
PS. Later update: She didn't.
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When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
Coming up...
Moving house.
Sprouting (!).
And somewhere in the middle of that - hopefully writing.
Sprouting (!).
And somewhere in the middle of that - hopefully writing.
Quotes of an undetermined period of time
When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
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