awkward

so, I haven't written in a while, because I honestly can't think of anything of interest to say. But then yesterday I woke up with a zit on my forehead. I was annoyed with it so I wore my hair in such a way as to cover it. I felt it was okay and then I promptly forgot about it. That is, I forgot about it until one of the teachers asked me what happened to my forehead. There was a rather long moment of awkward silence after I answered that question. =(

Okay, so in every culture there are certain things you just don't do or say. In Taiwan we have to avoid words like "sigh," "gun," or "cow," because they sound like Taiwanese swear words (keep that thought in mind). I have a little boy in my 3rd grade class who likes to call me different animal names. We've made a war of this and we always call each other different animal names, but we always say it in a somewhat insulting way. Today, he called me a "horse" so I straight away followed it with ... "COW!" My poor little kid's eyes got really big as he couldn't believe his character English teacher was swearing at him in Taiwanese. =( I quickly realized my error and called him a "duck!" Fortunately, kids are quick to forgive and so we moved on with our little, dangerous name calling game.