Have been using my yoga breathing to control myself when dealing with the various delightfully charming youths I deal with in a few of my classes. Instead of getting cross after hearing the c word or f word or a variety of other words and repulsive behaviours, I simply smile graciously, breathe, inform them I am filling the ubiquitous yellow form in on their behaviour and then ignore them. I am getting somewhere with a particular class whose amount of foul language has diminished, and even has some " sorry teacher " response attached to it thereafter.
Ultimately however, I feel that our lovely language is diminishing into a quagmire of Ali-G inspired patois. I for one, love the language of Shakespeare however and will not reduce myself to saying things like ..." yo, my homey " and "init ".
This childlike way of communication makes me laugh more than anything. I mean Ali-G got rich taking the mickey out of this pitiful attempt at conversation, so I laugh, often.
More later, I am lessening my positive energy.
Off with a smile on my face, S x
