Getting into the groove.

The World Cup is over and done with. I can't say I totally ignored the event. I had to take interest. Everyone was talking about it, even seven year old "coke bottle" glasses boy. Remember the olden days when we used to drink coke from the bottle? how thick the bottles were from the bottom???

14 year old soccer freak has been a student of mine since he was 7. Being a typical sportsman, his main interest was only sports. I remembered when he started to take interest in the F1 car racing, I started to watch it too. I had to take interest. I even bought a Ferrarri t-shirt and wore it to class so that he would take interest. He has come a long way. Still missing his homework, he's still coming here twice a week and still calls himself a student to me.

At times, as a teacher, we just have to take interest in our surroundings. If you ask me, I don't think F1 racing is all that cool. So loud and fast and so much money involved, and how much it contributes to the air pollution. Ah well.....it's just my opinion. However, I have to know how Schumacker looks like or at least know when the event is happening in my own country.

During the world cup, we saw so many boys wearing football jerseys. Brazil, England, Australia, Argentina..... colourful.

Yesterday, a few came in the class telling me proudly how they stayed up to watch the final match. 4 years ago, 14 year old soccer freak and I talked about the games, and this year, we talked about it again. I was just telling him, in 4 years time, we'll not be able to because he'll be off to college. Made me kind of sad in a way.

Now I can imagine what it's like for mothers to have their children going away from them. I experince it all the time. It's like a yearly event for me and I still feel kind of sad.