The Most Awkward Questions Our Students Ever Asked

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So, here’s an interesting question that someone asked, about interesting questions that we’ve been asked:

What are the weirdest questions that your students have ever asked you?
jobellebelle, Singapore!

Now, we wish we can say that there were some profound questions that we were asked by out former students, something that, in their curiosity, revealed to us an aspect of Korean culture that we hadn’t seen before…but I think we kind of already shared the more interesting questions in our “TL;DR- What South Korean students think of North America”

So now you guise are stuck with the awkward stuff. The kind of special memories and special moments teacher have that can be awkward stories to tell other people, but other teachers understand what we’re trying to say. So, we don’t want to ruin the surprise in the video, but we’ll give you a hint:

Martina’s question was about the real meaning of “magic stick” and “lollipop” as found in a song. Yeah. She kind of panicked. And Simon’s was in a similar field, but we’re starting to think that someone was dared to ask Simon that question…

Now to be clear, these are not common questions (although Martina did get a lot of questions about the meaning of slang used in English songs) but just really memorable ones for us. I guess this is kind of a light and fluffy TL;DR! YAY! Something light and fluffy was needed this week…like…a giant pink unicorn toy. <—clearly Martina typing

So after you watch the video and witness our awkward moments, we’d love to hear your awkward stories that you’ve had with students (or maybe even younger siblings?) Both Simon and I are the youngest children so we’ll have to hold our sisters/brothers back from spilling any embarrassing stories about us. *Martina’s eyes narrow…put that family picture album away….

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001182681879 Janee Ouk

wow! u guys are really tall then! 195cm…its like the size of the door, simon! :O
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XZMSVOCJOA7ZA47SDPHNBVFNWM Lizzie Heart

Hahahaha something like this just happened today!

My old sister’s boyfriend told my sister was a Nymphomaniac and my little sister heard that and asked what that mean, and we all shared awkward stares until my older sister said

”It’s what you call people who like to date a lot” LOL LOL
http://www.facebook.com/people/Josue-Jimenez-Arguedas/1821165858 Josue Jimenez Arguedas

Lol one of my classmates told us that when she was little she wanted to know what was durex and that her dad didnt ever told her
http://www.facebook.com/people/LuzMa-Cruz/100000009038270 LuzMa Cruz

I had a similar situation with one of my 6 grade students in Puerto Rico, she asked me what did the “Peacock” in Katy Perry’s song really mean. Since she said her older sister told her she shouldn’t sing that song and since she didn’t dare ask her older sister why, she came and asked me.

It was a little bit awkward but funny at the same time
http://twitter.com/alejoda1987 Alejandro Castro

AHHHH … I too work in Korea, in the bustling town of Cheonju in Chungcheongbuk-do! Simon – I had a similar question from a group of boys (I teach middle school). They would also ask me about my “member size” and also if I had hair in different body areas … ehem. Now, I’m new to the country – 4 months in – and though on the inside I am laughing hysterically because these are question that you just don’t hear back home from students – how normal is this really????????
http://profiles.google.com/asiapopgirl Tsurara Kiryu

Well my awkward moment was probably more of an awkward moment for our teacher XD

So my teacher was teaching Chemistry and he was talking about how chocolate contains phenylethylamine which is the same hormone as when you have pleasure or when you fall in love…
So then my teacher was like “Ok guys! Now you know what to give your girlfriend for Valentine’s Day!”
It was pretty evident he wanted us to say Chocolate!
But some guy at the back of the room yelled SEX!
And we had like a few seconds of awkward silence before everyone burst out laughing XD

On another note, I had an awkward moment with my brother cause he doesn’t think Taemin is a boy :/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000813261577 Jessica Hope Satterfield

An awkward moment that will ALWAYS remain burned in my memory (because until I moved away, it was still constantly brought up) will be the banana bang conversation during lunch at the end of the year when I was in eighth grade.

So you will understand why I said this in the first place, you need to understand that my middle school’s lunch wasn’t exactly known for it’s presentation or food quality. Neither was my high school’s… But anyway, my friend Cayla and me were just sitting there having lunch and that day the fruit of choice for lunch (we follow the the food pyramid SO closely) was bananas. The bananas were very bruised and pretty much not edible —which sucked because I was hungry— and I said (and, unfortunately, quote), “Man! It’s like somebody banged the bananas or something.” Cayla looked at me for a second, blinked, and burst out into hysterical laughter. I, OF COURSE, hadn’t the slightest inkling of why she was laughing so hard and asked. She gave me the look that means it’s obviously perverted. *lightbulb~* My mouth fell open. HOW ON EARTH DID I COME UP WITH THAT?! I was known as the more pure, innocent one of my friends and yet ALWAYS said the perverted things. I never lived it down. *sigh*
http://www.facebook.com/people/Narulita-Uli-Hutami/615704587 Narulita ‘Uli’ Hutami

An akward moment happened a few years ago when I went to a mini market near my house. And I still remember it coz this is what happened.

There is a condoms display near the cashier desk and there also several packages has pictures of fruits on it.
There were two children at about age 5 and 8 years old, looking for some candies and they asked the employee there like this;
Kid A = ” what are these candies? why are they placed different than the others?”

At that moment my face went (o_0),, and wondering what will I say to those children when I’m in her (employee) position.
And that girl looks like she was thinking for a while,, and I also curious about what will she told them.

Then the girl/employee there just calmly answer them, “oh, that’s an expensive but taste bad, gummy candy. I think you wouldn’t want it.”
Knowing that the kids only brought enough money for a few snack and candies,, they just comment each other that “oh, it’s expensive. Let’s find another candy then!”

My thought was like “OMG that girl is so briliant to have such an answer like that within less than 30 seconds!”
After those kids left, I spoke to her and appraise her to have such an idea to told the kids.
I honestly would be stuttering answering thise question if that was me. ^_^
Anonymous

good bye baby is awsome
Katharina Kenklies

Not so much awkward, but funny:

Me and a colleague were still in our shared office at college at about 9 pm, trying to sort out an avalanche of enrolment papers for the next day. A student emerged from the library and found the main entrance locked already, so came looking to the office for someone to let him out.

He poked his head around the door and asked “Uhmmmm, excuse me…. do you work here?”
Without so much as flinching my colleague went “Sssshhhhhh! We’re trying to break out!”
With a completely straight face the student replied: “Oh. Good luck!” and disappeared.
elisha hwangbo

yoohoo~ is there a tldr today?