Juste pour les lols

Last month, a few of the English classes interviewed me and had to write a summary of what they had learnt about me. These are the highlights (or lowlights depending on how you look at it) - I just remembered about these today and thought they would amuse you as much as they did me! Marking these = hours of laughter.

"she would like to be a French teacher and later have a child"

"the young woman loves her food, her culture..."

"She lives in the north of Scotland, in England"

"Miss Mcc Ray has a boyfriend who call Christ"

"Unfortunately, the woman quit the France in May"

"She is quite sad to be here, but for the holidays she goes back to England"

"she is a twenty years olded woman"

"Sophia has twenti years old, he live in England"

"Sophia's family live in Ireland but she's live in England with Chris, her boyfriend"

"It's a young woman, she is a 23 years old"

"She use to chat with her family on skype and with her boyfriend Chris with who she wants children, but much later"

"There, the life is different. Indeed, they drive to the left on the road"

"She has green eyes and red hair and she always smiles"

"The young English likes France in particular for the culture of this country"

"She goes in Ireland to Christmas in family"

"Her birthday is the thirst May"

"She has not a brother or a sister because she has a dog"

"Her name is Sophia and she's 30 years old"

"Sophia she a ordinary women"

"This is assistant call Sophie and She live in Scotland. She can learn French because it wants to become a French teacher. She came to Lorraine to know history. But his favorite country is Ireland because that is were family lives. She loves the number 4. She love the movie "Black Swan" and her favorite book is "To Kill Moderking is". She has a dog. She enjoy this sport "hockey" and she play to hockey. She was watched world cup rudby. She love fashen. She is fashen girl. She back to maybe in France."

After all of these howlers (and many more which didn't make the final cut), let me tell you that I am seriously questioning my looks - firstly, is my gender really that obscure? Do I really look 30? And most importantly, do I look ginger?! One pupil asked me last month if I had ginger hair, but thankfully I was valiantly defended by one of her classmates, who retorted, "can you not see that she has not got the head of the carrot?!". Indeed.

This might have been topped by today's faux pas. I have been talking to classes about the English school system and have been starting off all my classes by holding up my school tie and asking the kids to guess what we're going to talk about. I've done this with 6 classes so far and every class has guessed straight away. Except my wonderful Year 11 class this morning, where one darling angel boy asked me if we were talking about "when you put your tie on the door to tell people you're having sex". Weirdly enough, he wasn't even looking for a laugh. He was being deadly serious. And that's when I got frightened...

Bises,

Sophia (AKA fashen girl) xx