In the office the other day…
Sven: I’m off to class to have mad fun with our apathetic teenagers!
Carol: Good job! Did you learn that word from David?
Sven: What?
Meg: He said “mad fun” not “ma fan“. (Chinese for problems or trouble)
Carol: Wow, your tones are almost as bad as Sven’s.
Did i say that? Meg, I promis u i didnt mean to be mean to u. but u know it's my nature……..Wahaha(I m only mean to my friends. Congrutulations!)
If I knew that word earlier, I would have been using it constantly already.
I learned how to tell my students to shut up in Chinese. You should have seen their faces when I first said it. It of course wore off the more I said it, but hey, it at least worked for a little bit.
Yeah, I was a mean teacher, but I was teaching little devils. I had to be mean. 🙂
say that word to Whom? Meg? Poor Meg is always Ma fan to Sven……..