Eewwh, gross and just plain shocking! I feel like I need to take a shower…
In the US, if someone tells you you’re pretty or beautiful you say thank you. Here apparently a ‘thank you’ is an okay go sign for a stranger to try to kiss you on an elevator! Yes, folks, this happened. So here’s the scenario…
A new teacher to the school, I have no idea what his name is, who teaches physics started about a week ago. Other than the normal, hellos & hi's we've exchanged we haven't talked, as in he's Chinese and only knows hi. If I was to estimate age, it would depend on what I was using as a calculator, if I go by teeth age he’s about 80, but in actuality I think he’s in his mid-late 30’s. Today, I was getting ready to head home for lunch; he was standing next to me at the elevator. He says, ‘you’re pretty’, I say, ‘thanks’, we get on the elevator, then ‘he says I love you’, attempts to put his arm around me and then tried to kiss me all while I'm saying Bo, Bo, Bo!, which in English is No, No, No! Good thing I have strength and wits about me, he landed on my neck. That’s where the ‘eewwwh, gross and just plain shocking’ comes into play. He tried to follow me home…this is when my shopping walking pace begins, he’s got tiny Chinese legs and he couldn’t keep up with me, eventually I think he got the clue.
Man, what a gross way to start my work week!
5:00pm-Update...the skeevy teacher has been let go. I guess he did something similar to another teacher yesterday and was given a warning, today my principle was yelling at him in Chinese (in another room thank goodness!) and then came to my office and said, 'No more problem, you tell me if you see him again.'
In the US, if someone tells you you’re pretty or beautiful you say thank you. Here apparently a ‘thank you’ is an okay go sign for a stranger to try to kiss you on an elevator! Yes, folks, this happened. So here’s the scenario…
A new teacher to the school, I have no idea what his name is, who teaches physics started about a week ago. Other than the normal, hellos & hi's we've exchanged we haven't talked, as in he's Chinese and only knows hi. If I was to estimate age, it would depend on what I was using as a calculator, if I go by teeth age he’s about 80, but in actuality I think he’s in his mid-late 30’s. Today, I was getting ready to head home for lunch; he was standing next to me at the elevator. He says, ‘you’re pretty’, I say, ‘thanks’, we get on the elevator, then ‘he says I love you’, attempts to put his arm around me and then tried to kiss me all while I'm saying Bo, Bo, Bo!, which in English is No, No, No! Good thing I have strength and wits about me, he landed on my neck. That’s where the ‘eewwwh, gross and just plain shocking’ comes into play. He tried to follow me home…this is when my shopping walking pace begins, he’s got tiny Chinese legs and he couldn’t keep up with me, eventually I think he got the clue.
Man, what a gross way to start my work week!
5:00pm-Update...the skeevy teacher has been let go. I guess he did something similar to another teacher yesterday and was given a warning, today my principle was yelling at him in Chinese (in another room thank goodness!) and then came to my office and said, 'No more problem, you tell me if you see him again.'