this week's quotations

"stephmoy, were you made in china, too?"
-OT, 4 y/o, trying to discern if i had been adopted from china, too.

"well, you look kinda asian."
-same aforementioned little girl, after i asked her why she thought to ask that of me

"you have lots of pelos blancos!" (white hairs)
-EK, 7 y/o, before he climbed on top of my head and pulled a white strand from my head, and before he started stroking and playing with my hair... which i kinda liked, but had to teach him that he shouldn't touch people's hair without asking first. and then when he asked me, i had to say "no" just to get my point across. sad.

after putting a paper plate on his head and bobbing his head from side to side:
"i'm from china! ching chong ching chong."
-J, 7 y/o. (in case you didn't know, that's what chinese Actually sounds like. barf.)

my internal response:
"oh. no. he. didn't.  breathe.  breathe."

my imaginary response:
"is that what you have to say? that's how i was made fun of when i was a kid! that's how my parents were made fun of when they arrived in the States! is that all you got? don't ya got anything new!?!?!"

my actual verbal response:
"you hurt my feelings. blah blah blah. i felt like you were making fun of me and teasing me. blah. blah."

on hearing that he had to work outside in the hall with me, in a small group:
"am i in trouble?"
-NI, 7 y/o

internet research gone awry:
"Queen Cleopatra was a murdering, adulterous seductress."
-written on a little form by an 8 y/o who had to find some facts about Cleopatra from The Google

"if you work really really really hard, you'll get really really really lucky."
-guest speaker. yeah, tell that to the billions of people living on less than $2/day.