7.11.2000
"Arriving nowhere"
Marisa:Where are we going?
Anu: We?re not going anywhere.
Marisa: Where are we staying then?

19.11.2000
Deva is completely blind?
Driving to Eggesford, we see a mother and child walking along the road.
Deva: Look, there is Hilary and her dog!
I'm wondering why the dog has a blue anorak and is walking on two legs...
Anu: It doesn't even look like a dog!
Deva: No, but the woman looks like Hilary!


28.11.2000
Zeena "correcting" English sentences?
Q:There was a race between him and the Russian guy.
Z: ? ? ? ? ? him and the Russian human.


4.12.2000
Two fools?
Benny and Josho were watching the sunset.
Benny: F*** man, look how big the moon is!


5.12.2000
Pooja's skills?
Anu: You have to decide whether you want it to be pretty or useful.
Pooja: Yeah but, being pretty IS useful!!


Autumn 2000
"Reports"
1:I don't know what to say about Geography as I feel a bit lost in it.(Deva)
2:German is a bit boring but I don't think there's a lot you can do about it.(Waduda)
3: I really like Sports but I can never be bothered running or anything. (Zeena)


10.12.2000
Zeena is bisexual???
Zeena in the kitchen ripping out a picture of Buffy and Angel.
Supragya: Are you ripping it out because of her or him?
Zeena: Both... (pause) I'm bisexual!

10.12.2000
Language difficulties?
Nayuta was cooking something.
Benny: What are you cooking?
Nayuta: Gohan (Japanese)
Benny: What?
Nayuta: GOHAN!!
They went on like this for really long until Benny went to see what was in the pot.
Benny: Nayuta, that's also called rice!!!

01.02.01
Chana's priorities?
Chana comes last to 5D with a sandwich in her mouth till I tell her she has to leave it outside.
During 5D the kids are asked to write anonymously on pieces of paper: ?A positive change would be...?
Dhyani then pulls the papers out and reads the anonymous messages to the class.
All the messages are typical untill one ?anonymous message? is:
"A POSITIVE CHANGE WOULD BE THAT I CAN BRING MY SANDWICH INTO THIS CLASS!!!"


03.02.01
Music taste
Deva: The fire alarm went off and and at first I thought it was Pooja's music.?


05.02.01
Chana's perfect man?
In English the stereotypical perfect man is described as:
Handsome, strong, black, nice ass and rich.
Anu: What about qualities such as kindness?
Chana: No, if you have all that nothing else matters.


10.02.01
'Inspirational Pooja?
Dhyani: Imagine you're a tree...
Someone: What kind of tree?
Dhyani: Any kind.
Pooja: Then I'm a poe-tree!

13.02.01
Suha's mum's big mistake?
Suha tells us with a big enthusiasm how she was born in a vegetable garden:
Suha: My mum thought it would be really good for me but to this day I hate gardening!
Anu: Where was your brother born?
Suha: In the back of a car.... And he loves gardening!


13.02.01
Our lovely adults?
She also told us about the time her mother phoned at the same time as Prageet and the Meeras were watching ?Runway Bride?.
Prageet apparently has a bit of a soft spot for Julia Roberts and the Meeras don't. So while Suha was on the phone telling her mum how everything was fine a situation was developing upstairs where Prageet was getting more and more wound up by the less-than-respectful Meeras.
The landing above Suha exploded with energy as Prageet finally lost it.
Suha's mum on the phone: And how are the adults?
Suha: Oh they're fine.
As she was saying this you could hear in the backround:
Prageet: YOU **!^^+mmdjmx /*** kdsosjsu!!!!! majhps^66. I?LL djl;dh**** sdjk!!


23.02.01
Good taste
Anu and Govinda were looking at a computer magazine. There was a part about: ?Lord Of The Rings?
Anu: That's such an amazing, fantastic, lovely, wonderful, incredible book!!.... But I didn't like it....


25.02.01
Marisa (German) Comes into the kitchen with her face red because she was outside in the cold air.
Govinda: You look so red!!!
Marisa: You look so yellow!!! (Govinda is Japanese)

27.02.01
"Sex identity"
Zeena was looking at a picture of a hand.
Zeena:I really like her nails! But they're a bit too square!
Benny: You know why girls cut them like that?
Zeena: Why?
Beenny: Because then, they don't grow wide, they grow long.
Zeena: Duh! I knew that already, I'm a girl!!!
Benny: Yeah well, I'm a girl TOO!!


28.02.01
"Practical love"
Chana has problems with breaking wire for her molecular model, so I use my fantastic strength to do it for her.
Anu: That's what men are for.
Chana: Yes, I need one in my room.


01.03.01
"Normal families"
Zeena, Suha, Pooja and Alexis were talking about their ?Ko Hsuan? families.
Pooja: I have 3 brothers; 2 of them are ?Ko Hsuan brothers? and 1 of them is real.
Suha: I have 3 brothers and they?re all real.
Alexis: I don't have any brothers............ Oh. yeah, Josh!! (That?s his real borther)


04.03.01
"Pooja's stupidness"
Deva comes into Zeena's and Pooja's room.
Zeena: Where is Marisa?
Deva: She's writing a letter.
Pooja: What? She's writing you a letter?
Deva: Nooooo, she's writing a letter to her neighbour.
Pooja: What? She's writing a letter to your neighbour?
Deva: What's wrong with you?!? She's writimg a letter to her neighbour in Germany!
Pooja: She's writing a letter to her neighbour in Chawleigh?
Zeena+Deva: POOOOJJJJAAAAA!!!!!!!


19.03.01
"Deva's own language"
I point to a tray full of suspiciously brown bananas in the kitchen.
Anu: What happened to them?
Marisa: They were put in the oven.
Anu: Aahh, they've been caramelized.
Deva: No, it's been made by Kara and Nora, so it's been KARANORAMELIZED!!!


27.03.01
"Man of few words"
Zenji: Of course I have an English book!!! I mean, I don't read it or anything...


03.04.01
"Tranlation difficulties"
Tim: Nisargan, is it dinner clean up?
Nisargan: What?
Tim: Is it dinner clean up?
Nisargan: What? Kinner kyn pap?
Tim: DINNER CLEAN UP!!!!
Nisargan: Yeah, you can start already.
Tim: No, is it now?
Nisargan: Zeena, can you translate?
Zeena: He?s asking you if it's dinner clean up now.
Nisargan: Yeah, you can start if you want.
Tim: Yeah ok, but is it now?
Nisargan: I'll start now and you can come in 10 min.
Tim:Oh, I'm not on anyway!



09.04.01
?????????
Deva: Why does a HOT DOG come from a pig???

16.05.01
"Deva's categories"
Shakespeare's plays,? I say in English, are often divided into three categories: Histories, Comedies and...?
"Krimmies!" shouts out Deva.
("Krimmies" is German slang for "Whodunnits" or thrillers.)

25.05.01
"Confused identity"
Shaan lets me (Anu) use his room one evening to watch a video.
I'm watching the box when the door opens and Surabaya enters.
She's really shocked that I?m there and Shaan isn't.
Surabaya: Oh.... Ummm.... Do you know where Anu is??


30.05.01
"Feminist Science"
Group 3 Science. We are studying the reproductive organs of a flower.
We've been looking at the male parts - the anthers and filaments - when Linnea at the back of the class shouts out:
Linnea: AND WHAT ABOUT THE FEMALE PARTS, HEY?!?
Anu: Ok, to keep the feminist in the back row happy, we will now look at the female parts.
Linnea: ABOUT TIME... TYPICAL!! THE WOMEN LAST AS ALWAYS!!
Others in the class start exclaiming:
Others: Where are the female parts? We can't find them.
Anu: Ahh, If you peel the petals back you will find the ovary. (IRONICALLY.) As you'll expect from the female, the parts are hidden, quiet and discreet.
Linnea: ARE YOU CALLING ME QUIET AND DISCREET?!!??!!!?



31.06.01
"Uihlas's Gentleness"
Uihlas (small, 10 years old) just started at Ko Hsuan. He walks confidently along the corridor till he reaches the door. The door open and Nisargan (Russian, gentle, new and shy adult) appears, tripping over Uihlas who barges straight into him.
Nisargan: Oh oh sorry, I?m sorry.
As they stumble over each other's feet, trying to get past each other, Nisargan, very apologetically, turns to him to say sorry. Uilhas indignantly looks up to Nisargan, who's twice his size, and screams angrily in his face,
Uihlas: What is wrong with you? Can't you walk or something???


18.6.1
"English difficulties"
Anu: Do you know what a ?thesaurus? is?
Deva: No. But I can look it up in a dictionary.

04.07.01
"Zenji's skill"
We were trying to get Zenji to write ten tips on how to be lazy.
Zenji: I can't be bothered.

08.07.01
"Deva's wisdom"
Anu: As the Chinese say, it is better to light a candle than yell at the darkness.
Deva: I disagree. It can be MUCH more fun to really yell at the darkness!

18.07.01
"Old patients"
We're watching a video about ?the invisible world? in Science. It shows the use of X-rays in medicine and research, then cuts to a scene with a row of Egyptian mummies, all deformed and horrible. Roman, Jake and others start yelling:
Roman etc.: "Ahhh! Is that what happens if you get too many X-rays?!"



21.07.01
"Language skills"
Zeena: Why do you think something is wrong?
Anu: You look really sombre.
Zeena: Eh?
Anu: It's from a Latin word; as you're Spanish you should know it.
Zeena: No.
Anu: It means ?shadow?, as in the Mexican ?sombrero?. (She looks really baffled.) SOMBRE! SOMBRERO! What?s Spanish for ?shadow? then?
Zeena: Sombre.

22.07.01
"Computer intelligence"
Half-way through ?Tomb Raider? at the cinema, a character says, ?It is better to have two tomb raiders than one.?
Zeena turns to me and asks, ?What does ?tomb raider? mean??