Oh life, why must you get in the way of, well, my LIFE?? The past few months have flown by, it is hard to believe I have been here for 7 months already! I'll write a reflective post later, this is a quick story that has all of my friends using the phrase "but it is not delicious..."
At my new school, they host a camp night, a sleepover if you will, for the elementary students. In the morning, as everyone was eating breakfast, they kept running out of pretty much everything. Towards the end, many of the students didn't get much of a breakfast, as we were out of juice, rice, eggs, and hamburgers. (Because, who doesn't like a hamburger for breakfast?) As people were complaining about the lack of these major breakfast items, I noticed a table of girls, with 8 full cups of juice, just sitting there, as they were getting up.
I went up to ask why they were not finishing their juices, and they looked at me, and with completely sincere faces, told me that they could not finish the juice because, "Teacher, it is not delicious." I was dumbstruck. And irritated, because I had 100 little kids tugging on my sleeve to tell me that they didn't get juice because we were out, and yet here are the girls, not drinking theirs, because it was not delicious.
Later, as I was drinking a beer, and nowhere near small children, I thought about it some more. And I realized that those girls have the right idea. Why should they be forced to drink non-delicious juice? Why should people have to eat food they don't find utterly mouth watering? So from now on, I will no longer force down food to be polite. When I am offered durien or balut or any of another foods I find bizarre and repulsive, I will try them, and then kindly refuse to eat any more, with the lovely phrase, "but it is not delicious." I encourage you to do the same!
At my new school, they host a camp night, a sleepover if you will, for the elementary students. In the morning, as everyone was eating breakfast, they kept running out of pretty much everything. Towards the end, many of the students didn't get much of a breakfast, as we were out of juice, rice, eggs, and hamburgers. (Because, who doesn't like a hamburger for breakfast?) As people were complaining about the lack of these major breakfast items, I noticed a table of girls, with 8 full cups of juice, just sitting there, as they were getting up.
I went up to ask why they were not finishing their juices, and they looked at me, and with completely sincere faces, told me that they could not finish the juice because, "Teacher, it is not delicious." I was dumbstruck. And irritated, because I had 100 little kids tugging on my sleeve to tell me that they didn't get juice because we were out, and yet here are the girls, not drinking theirs, because it was not delicious.
Later, as I was drinking a beer, and nowhere near small children, I thought about it some more. And I realized that those girls have the right idea. Why should they be forced to drink non-delicious juice? Why should people have to eat food they don't find utterly mouth watering? So from now on, I will no longer force down food to be polite. When I am offered durien or balut or any of another foods I find bizarre and repulsive, I will try them, and then kindly refuse to eat any more, with the lovely phrase, "but it is not delicious." I encourage you to do the same!
