11/16 What do you know about the United States of America?

So I now have one 40 min class on Tuesday in the afternoons. The class is usually a little hyper after lunch and recess but they are still really enthusiastic. So I put together a power point with only a few slides on it. The teacher told me to do a small lesson on the United States and my family, so I put pictures of maps, the Statue of Liberty, North Carolina, the beach, our Christmas photo from last year, the mountains in Wyoming, and Wes skiing. It was super cute. Well the class that was only supposed to be 40 minutes but took about an hour and we only managed to get through the first few slides. The kids were so funny, my second slide was asking them what they knew about the United States, and you should have heard the answers, they started with hamburgers (side note: I think that every French person thinks that we (meaning Americans) eat hamburgers every day, when in reality we really only eat them in the summer and maybe once every other week). Then they started to get a little braver and said a few cities like New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and then one kid said Montreal. I was like no that’s in Canada, and then another kid said Mexico, and then I really lost it. It was so cute and funny and I just couldn’t hold it in. Then the kids started talking about famous American people, they all knew Obama and Michael Jackson, they also said Brad Pitt and then one kid said the Beatles. I think the teacher nearly fell out of his seat. I personally think he loves England, so it took it kinda personally. Lol but I think he was really offended. One kid really surprised me though, he’s super smart and speaks really well compared to the others, but he named all these famous directors, Scorsese, Tim Burton, and James Cameron. Very smart little guy. But the class was tons of fun and I really like this job a lot.