"Hot is the default here?!" Lucky you, I guess. I can only wonder what it's like being young and hormonal, like you, and teaching a bunch of foreign good looking young women. Students always look up to their teachers, in any culture, no? Isn't that a given? Well, this is moving to the realm of daydream material. What an enviable position you are in, HF, well, minus the violence. I wonder if there's a movie that would mirror your life at this time, teaching English to a bunch of western European super models?
My thinking is that foreigners learn about America thru our movies and tv shows. I wonder what your girls would think of Juno? Probably not a good movie suggestion. The dialog is too fast and too snappy. I wouldn't advise showing them No Country for Old Men either. Too grim, violent, and weird.
From my reading and watching movies it seems that foreigners were always taken by tv shows like Dallas or Knots Landing and that they get the idea that every American is super rich and very good looking. What is the top rated tv show today? American Idol? Yuck. What do you show them, when you want to take a break from teaching syntax and grammar, HF?
TIR that was an interesting blurb on your sister in Japan. I liked the comment about 1950s American baseball. How times have changed here. Now it's football that dominates the culture and the chit chat and the fantasy sports and talk radio.
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