sedating victims

lesson this week: describing motion

class #1: we're talking about references points and how you need to have something stationary to compare to another object to establish that it's moving. if a reference point is moving, it makes things much more difficult to determine motion, like when two moving cars are next to each other. and then this comes out of my mouth; "it's like when you kidnap someone and want them to not know where they're going or if you're moving. you blindfold them so then can't tell what's going on." then, of course, a student comments that the person might still feel the vibrations, and just in case i really still wanted a job, i say "then that's why you also sedate them."

class #2: i am showing the class a graph showing velocity vs. time and describing acceleration. the particular graph shows increasing acceleration and i say "like if you were driving in a car and see your ex-boyfriend crossing the street, or you're running from the po-po." the students lost their minds that i said "po-po," then i hear soren (the whitest of the white kids who writes on his forehead and is going out with a snobby girl who thinks she's awesome and they sit next to each and next quarter i'm making the seating chart so they sit on opposite sides of the room because he's SO much better than her) say "what's the po-po?", i say "it's the police," tarezz says "who asked who the po-po was?" and i say "hey.. not every white person knows what the po-po is."

apparently i still think i'm teaching in korea where students don't understand half of what i'm saying.