Mgt is a jumper teacher in our school. An actress by former profession, working off and on in TV, studying languages in university for a higher academic degree at the age of 50 something which she had gladly rejected in her student age and a teacher side by side, Mgt is really a nice, warm hearted and an interesting person.
She can speak more than 5 languages: German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, English and maybe even a few more.! This is something I would love to be able to do some day. She can play music, sing and dance; she looks remarkably smart even in her 50s. She handles children rather well, to be frank, a lot better than some of the others and you know which people I am talking about. She also has a habit of simplifying instructions so that they are easier to follow - something which I have perceived only in myself and feel frustrated at the bumbling way the others do it.
But her most remarkable and a bit funny characteristic is her ability for speaking continuously without giving you a clue of what she is trying to say. Another is to leave off her sentences unfinished hanging in mid air which are almost immediately replaced by a new sentences and they are often not connected. For example, if she wanted to say, she has throat pain she would say something like this:
"Aaah, yesterday we had ....some lessons....and you know it is brilliant how they sing now.Ya, they sing brilliantly. I admire them a lot. I sang a lot and while.... But, actually I was doing this what you call it...er...well ..Okay...I had a discuss with Rd, he is my well, first he was boyfriend a very good boyfriend but now he is ...I married him and he is now my husband. I told him I can't do it.I really cannot cannot actually talk. there is some...something in my throat like...like...what you say...pain. Not a lot like it is very much and I can't eat and but I can eat. it is a little just a little something hurting like... I go to my doctor; he lives very far and but...Today I feel not so... up ...and so like..when you do this...get up in mornings and can't get up like somebody was heavy like ...I got up today in the morning and Rd said hey, you look different. I looked in the mirror and yes...I was like....! I don't know what is turning inside my..my stomach. I get it not good in my all body and singing Oh no, my throat is...doctor has said,all is okay with you but you must keep care and I am not allowed to ...er..er... I am not allowed to speak louder but the doctor has also said and he is a good doctor. I trust him a lot. he has said what did you do to make it bad and I said I don't know how this is happening..."
And you are left wondering what was she trying to tell you about; her music lesson, her husband, her doctor, her stomachache or her throat pain..! And dare you ask to clarify your doubt you will be led into another labyrinth of words and words till you realize that there is no way you could solve it.
There is however one remarkably easy way to avoid getting lost - keep nodding your head and keep dropping timely exclamations "Oh...! Wow!, Really? How bad!
It is better to know what you are doing rather than to discover what she was doing..
Sorry Mgt, I am not making fun of you. You are really nice. Maybe it is just because English is a foreign language for you and Germans don't speak it very well...
She can speak more than 5 languages: German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, English and maybe even a few more.! This is something I would love to be able to do some day. She can play music, sing and dance; she looks remarkably smart even in her 50s. She handles children rather well, to be frank, a lot better than some of the others and you know which people I am talking about. She also has a habit of simplifying instructions so that they are easier to follow - something which I have perceived only in myself and feel frustrated at the bumbling way the others do it.
But her most remarkable and a bit funny characteristic is her ability for speaking continuously without giving you a clue of what she is trying to say. Another is to leave off her sentences unfinished hanging in mid air which are almost immediately replaced by a new sentences and they are often not connected. For example, if she wanted to say, she has throat pain she would say something like this:
"Aaah, yesterday we had ....some lessons....and you know it is brilliant how they sing now.Ya, they sing brilliantly. I admire them a lot. I sang a lot and while.... But, actually I was doing this what you call it...er...well ..Okay...I had a discuss with Rd, he is my well, first he was boyfriend a very good boyfriend but now he is ...I married him and he is now my husband. I told him I can't do it.I really cannot cannot actually talk. there is some...something in my throat like...like...what you say...pain. Not a lot like it is very much and I can't eat and but I can eat. it is a little just a little something hurting like... I go to my doctor; he lives very far and but...Today I feel not so... up ...and so like..when you do this...get up in mornings and can't get up like somebody was heavy like ...I got up today in the morning and Rd said hey, you look different. I looked in the mirror and yes...I was like....! I don't know what is turning inside my..my stomach. I get it not good in my all body and singing Oh no, my throat is...doctor has said,all is okay with you but you must keep care and I am not allowed to ...er..er... I am not allowed to speak louder but the doctor has also said and he is a good doctor. I trust him a lot. he has said what did you do to make it bad and I said I don't know how this is happening..."
And you are left wondering what was she trying to tell you about; her music lesson, her husband, her doctor, her stomachache or her throat pain..! And dare you ask to clarify your doubt you will be led into another labyrinth of words and words till you realize that there is no way you could solve it.
There is however one remarkably easy way to avoid getting lost - keep nodding your head and keep dropping timely exclamations "Oh...! Wow!, Really? How bad!
It is better to know what you are doing rather than to discover what she was doing..
Sorry Mgt, I am not making fun of you. You are really nice. Maybe it is just because English is a foreign language for you and Germans don't speak it very well...
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