Thursday, September 01, 2005

Lost in translation...

In one of my Resource classes today, we were discussing the possibility of taking the class to a nearby elementary school to read to some first-graders.

"This is a small enough class, we'd fit into my van," I noted, surveying the group.

"Shotgun!" Tiffany declared.

Sinxay (pronounced SEEN-say) laughed and told us that the first time he heard that (he's from Laos), his cousin had said it when they were all about to get into a vehicle together. Alarmed, he told his cousin, "I'm not riding with you if you're carrying a shotgun."

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