Welcome Back Cargile
I had my first session of tutoring English as a Second Language students atmy old highschool today. Here's a little how my day went, in screenplay form:
INT. MR. CARGILE'S KITCHEN
Matt ane Denean are talking at the breakfast nook
MATT: Hey Denean, did I ever tell you about my half-cousin Donny's trip to teh pig farm?
DENEAN: Matt, you don't have a cousin Donny.
MATT: Not any more. Muahahahahhaha....
DENEAN: Are you done?
MATT: Yes ma'am.
We hear a knock at the window. JUAN LUIS EPSTEIN, FREDDY BOOM-BOOM WASHINGTON, and ARNOLD DINGFELDER HORSHACK are standing on teh fire escape. Matt opens the window.
WASHINGTON: Hi there!
EPSTEIN: Ah, hey theh mistuh Cah-gile, eh you uh coming to school or what?
HORSHACK: (raising his hand) Ooh ooh ooh! Mistuh Cargile! Mistuh Cargile!
MATT: Yes Arnold, what is it?
HORSHACK: Mistuh Cargile... It seems that our dear friend Vinnie Barbarino was hit by a subway train.
MATT: Damn Scientologists. I don't suppose he lived?
HORSHACK: Yeh, but he don't look so good (Horshack laugh)
MATT: Damn. Well at least he's been uglied up.
EPSTEIN: Eh, don't worry theh Mistuh Cah-gile. I gotta note...
EPSTEIN HANDS MATT A NOTE
MATT: (reading aloud) Dear Mistuh Cah-Gile
It seems Barbarino was hit by a subway train. Here are some drawrings I did of him getting runned over.
MATT: (interupting himself) Isn't that cute, she drew little stick men getting squished under the tracks.
MATT: (Continuing to read the letter): Please excuse him from class. Signed, Epsteins Mom.
Well, Epstein, everything seems to be in order, let's go to class....
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okay, it was much less exciting than that. I taught a somali student how to conjugate verbs and personal pronouns.
I had my first session of tutoring English as a Second Language students atmy old highschool today. Here's a little how my day went, in screenplay form:
INT. MR. CARGILE'S KITCHEN
Matt ane Denean are talking at the breakfast nook
MATT: Hey Denean, did I ever tell you about my half-cousin Donny's trip to teh pig farm?
DENEAN: Matt, you don't have a cousin Donny.
MATT: Not any more. Muahahahahhaha....
DENEAN: Are you done?
MATT: Yes ma'am.
We hear a knock at the window. JUAN LUIS EPSTEIN, FREDDY BOOM-BOOM WASHINGTON, and ARNOLD DINGFELDER HORSHACK are standing on teh fire escape. Matt opens the window.
WASHINGTON: Hi there!
EPSTEIN: Ah, hey theh mistuh Cah-gile, eh you uh coming to school or what?
HORSHACK: (raising his hand) Ooh ooh ooh! Mistuh Cargile! Mistuh Cargile!
MATT: Yes Arnold, what is it?
HORSHACK: Mistuh Cargile... It seems that our dear friend Vinnie Barbarino was hit by a subway train.
MATT: Damn Scientologists. I don't suppose he lived?
HORSHACK: Yeh, but he don't look so good (Horshack laugh)
MATT: Damn. Well at least he's been uglied up.
EPSTEIN: Eh, don't worry theh Mistuh Cah-gile. I gotta note...
EPSTEIN HANDS MATT A NOTE
MATT: (reading aloud) Dear Mistuh Cah-Gile
It seems Barbarino was hit by a subway train. Here are some drawrings I did of him getting runned over.
MATT: (interupting himself) Isn't that cute, she drew little stick men getting squished under the tracks.
MATT: (Continuing to read the letter): Please excuse him from class. Signed, Epsteins Mom.
Well, Epstein, everything seems to be in order, let's go to class....
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okay, it was much less exciting than that. I taught a somali student how to conjugate verbs and personal pronouns.
