Wait, what did you just say? Yes, you heard correctly. We were joking that today was Testosterone Thursday because we were having supper with only the guy students from our classes. Out of the 130 freshmen students I teach, only 13 are guys. Granted, there are more guys at our college, but only 13 freshmen guys are English majors. Several of them are very interested in practicing their English. Since there are no guy teachers on our team, I wanted to introduce the freshmen guys to some of the guys who are junior English majors. My teammate (who also teaches the freshmen) and I invited both groups of guys to supper.
As an aside: Sometimes I still forget that here "in-group" / "out-group" is an important factor in relationships (more so than at home). The supper was a little awkward at first because most of the guys really like having the chance to speak with the foreigner and they were having to "share." Normally they handle sharing well, only tonight was with guys they didn't know and who were in their "out-group."
All in all though, we are calling Testosterone Thursday a success. The guys really seemed to enjoy it. Often they are overlooked in class because there are so many girls who are vying for your attention.
So for the guys reading this, in my humble opinion I think you should start celebrating this day of the week also! :)
(I was going to insert some type of manly photo... I must say the google image search came up with pictures of beaches and old, pondering men from the 1800s. Instead I'll leave you with two guys from one of my classes.)
Prince and Virat
(Yes, I spelled Virat correctly. No, I still am not sure how to actually pronounce his name.)
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