testicles in your eyes?

so as mentioned in my previous post, Jonathan, the boy who is notorious for using words like thingamajiggerjigger. yes, one time he did say that. well, it is the beginning of the school year and i had just started working with this class. i didn't know the kids or the teacher very well. in fact, i hadn't liked the teacher much the previous year because she was the ESL teacher, who only saw groups of about 10 students max at a time. i had some kind of grudge on her because i was working with a fifth grader who didn't speak any english. i was basically teaching him in spanish. he went to ESL forty-five minutes a day. (or a week? don't remember now). i blamed her for the fact that he wasn't learning much english. of course, now that i'm more familiar with the system and know her better, the grudge has all but evaporated. i've now seen kids who come in not speaking any english and i've seen how long it takes before they're talking to me in english (the two i work with now know words... they're very good at remembering words). anyhow so it was the beginning of the year and i was in her classroom at the end of the day. we were either having a party or the kids were just goofing off, but jonathan comes up to L. (his teacher) and asks her if she had those things in her eyes that help her see... "yeah, what are they called... you know, those testicles that you put in your eyes, to help you see...?" i stifle a laugh and L. says, "OH, you mean CONTACTS? yes, i have my contacts in today." where he got the word testicle in his vocabulary can only be left to imagination (tv? parents? has a baby brother?). he tends to use the word "thingamajigger" a lot too.

speaking of stifling laughs... every class has a dopey kid, and a kid who farts. today i had the priviledge to work with the boy who personafies both those characters. seriously, porfirio is in his own little world most of the time. he even has trouble answering simple questions that i ask him about the stories. today i was helping him and his group read one such story. we are sitting on the floor, most of the boys are cross-legged but porfi is on his stomach. then he farts. not on accident like the farty kid does. you could tell by the look on his face that he was squeezing this one out. i was in the middle of a paragraph, and my voice got ever so slightly shakey as i tried not to laugh. geez, didn't his mom tell him that it's rude to fart in public, and even worse if you make it obvious that you intend to pollute the room?