Entries tagged with "middle east"

Hello. Is it me you're looking for?

posted by srah on December 5, 2006 8:52 PM

Tags: assistantship, lionel richie, middle east, music, teaching

One day back when I was a teaching assistant in France, one of my students called me over to him in class. The students were supposed to be working individually on some assignment, so I assumed he was trying to get my attention to ask me a question about English for the work he was doing. I walked over to him and he quietly asked me (in English, if I remember correctly), "Do you like Lionel Richie?" Of all the things he could have asked me, I think that may be the last one I would have guessed. Lionel Richie...

Attention-seeking much?

posted by srah on March 29, 2006 8:17 AM

Tags: israel, middle east, politics, sharon stone, travel

It turns out that Sharon Stone, who followed us around Israel and stayed in two of the same hotels we did, was not doing so in order to stalk study abroad advisors, but because she wants to make out with everybody in the Middle East, and especially more women if ya got 'em. Dammit! I thought it was us. In other Sharon Stone-related news: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!...