German guy has quasi-hookup/date with our teaching assistant
So the German guy who's in my class for God knows what reason since he speaks Portuguese fluently went out on a date last night with a woman who I can best describe as our teaching assistant. You might find yourself asking a perfectly good question here: Isn't that against the rules? The answer, is, of course, yes, it's completely against the rules and maybe even against the law, i.e., teachers "fraternizing" (where fraternizing = making out &c.) with students. Which, to be honest, is pretty silly anyway since everyone is an adult and few are under 30. But god knows gossip makes damn good copy so I'm running with it.
I should mention here that our TA is approximately 25-30 years old, and has what could be described diplomatically as a full chest. She always wears low cut shirts, which is not out of the ordinary for a Brazilian woman of any age.
I walked by the bust stop (I mean bus stop) on an afternoon last week and saw her waiting there, and she said that my classmate had asked for some help finding his way to get an innoculation that he failed to get before he arrived in Salvador. She then went into this whole big deal about how it's against the rules, blah blah blah, for her to help him out but she was going to do it anyway. And she made a huge deal about how we couldn't tell anyone and I promised not to because, like, who cares. I never quite got why she was telling me this but I said if she needed any help I'd do what I could. I get the feeling now that she was using me as a barometer to see how good/bad I thought it was that she help him out or whatever.
So a couple of days later he tells me that she told him that she can't take him to the hospital or whatever to get inoculated because it's against the rules. Fine. No problem. He of course spent 3 hours on a Thursday switching between 5 or so different buses and ending up at a hospital that couldn't help him. La dee freakin da, I said. At least it wasn't me (laughing and pointing).
But then yesterday he tells me that she asked him if he wanted to "hang out" on Friday (last) night. I asked why and he said, somewhat unenthusiastically, that she said she "needed help with her English." Apparently she's taking English classes at a university here and might possibly get a job at my school teaching Portuguese. On Friday she taught our class, which I had to miss because I was still sick. Turns out it was the best class to miss because one of the teachers had everyone in all the classes get together at the end and sing some traditional Bahian song which the German guy told me was unbelievably painful but that's a whole other story.
He tells me about this English language social get-together or whatever and I still am not getting what it's all about, and so I press him and finally he says, "I think she likes me." So like any good buddy of 2 weeks I start immediately ridiculing him. He starts rolling his eyes, totally not into it, blah blah whatever. He calls her like he promised he would and they meet at one of the malls here, along with a couple of her friends, I think a guy and a woman.
So during the course of the evening our TA does the following: a) tells my classmate that she loves him, b) won't take her hands off him, c) tries to kiss him and I don't know what his level of resistance was (or not), d) tries to get him to stay over at her aunt's place for the evening, which is apparently major taboo (i.e., having your potential love interest stay over at a family's place if you're a woman). But hey, it's love - she said so, so f the rules, dammit.
My boy is a bit on the fence about the whole thing, to a level which I don't understand. I think he has trouble saying no, which I can understand, because she's definitely nice. I don't think he's terribly attracted to her on a physical level, although he has spent approximately 70% of our class staring at her chest. He was shaking his head this morning and asking me how he got into this, and I said "What did you think was going to happen?" For an answer I got a blank look into space lasting about 7 minutes.
Well it turns out that he wasn't cool with staying at the aunt's (loser), and sort of tabled the whole idea of whether or not the relationship will continue and to what level. He told her that he had promised me we'd meet in the morning to go to the beach. Which was true, but if he ditched me I could certainly have cared less, especially given the circumstances. We met but didn't go anyway because it's been cloudy and variably rainy all day.
This afternoon we were sitting on some building steps while I was stuffing my face with acaraje (Bahian shrimp quasi-taco) and he asked if I'd gotten the homework assignment from our teacher. Like any intelligent person I came back with "No, your girlfriend gave it to me." I am such a crazy character.
For my part, yesterday evening and night was spent watching Batman Begins for approximately the 900th time (I brought the DVD with me). At one point I pulled a bit of fuzz out of my navel. I wonder how long that'd been there.
I should mention here that our TA is approximately 25-30 years old, and has what could be described diplomatically as a full chest. She always wears low cut shirts, which is not out of the ordinary for a Brazilian woman of any age.
I walked by the bust stop (I mean bus stop) on an afternoon last week and saw her waiting there, and she said that my classmate had asked for some help finding his way to get an innoculation that he failed to get before he arrived in Salvador. She then went into this whole big deal about how it's against the rules, blah blah blah, for her to help him out but she was going to do it anyway. And she made a huge deal about how we couldn't tell anyone and I promised not to because, like, who cares. I never quite got why she was telling me this but I said if she needed any help I'd do what I could. I get the feeling now that she was using me as a barometer to see how good/bad I thought it was that she help him out or whatever.
So a couple of days later he tells me that she told him that she can't take him to the hospital or whatever to get inoculated because it's against the rules. Fine. No problem. He of course spent 3 hours on a Thursday switching between 5 or so different buses and ending up at a hospital that couldn't help him. La dee freakin da, I said. At least it wasn't me (laughing and pointing).
But then yesterday he tells me that she asked him if he wanted to "hang out" on Friday (last) night. I asked why and he said, somewhat unenthusiastically, that she said she "needed help with her English." Apparently she's taking English classes at a university here and might possibly get a job at my school teaching Portuguese. On Friday she taught our class, which I had to miss because I was still sick. Turns out it was the best class to miss because one of the teachers had everyone in all the classes get together at the end and sing some traditional Bahian song which the German guy told me was unbelievably painful but that's a whole other story.
He tells me about this English language social get-together or whatever and I still am not getting what it's all about, and so I press him and finally he says, "I think she likes me." So like any good buddy of 2 weeks I start immediately ridiculing him. He starts rolling his eyes, totally not into it, blah blah whatever. He calls her like he promised he would and they meet at one of the malls here, along with a couple of her friends, I think a guy and a woman.
So during the course of the evening our TA does the following: a) tells my classmate that she loves him, b) won't take her hands off him, c) tries to kiss him and I don't know what his level of resistance was (or not), d) tries to get him to stay over at her aunt's place for the evening, which is apparently major taboo (i.e., having your potential love interest stay over at a family's place if you're a woman). But hey, it's love - she said so, so f the rules, dammit.
My boy is a bit on the fence about the whole thing, to a level which I don't understand. I think he has trouble saying no, which I can understand, because she's definitely nice. I don't think he's terribly attracted to her on a physical level, although he has spent approximately 70% of our class staring at her chest. He was shaking his head this morning and asking me how he got into this, and I said "What did you think was going to happen?" For an answer I got a blank look into space lasting about 7 minutes.
Well it turns out that he wasn't cool with staying at the aunt's (loser), and sort of tabled the whole idea of whether or not the relationship will continue and to what level. He told her that he had promised me we'd meet in the morning to go to the beach. Which was true, but if he ditched me I could certainly have cared less, especially given the circumstances. We met but didn't go anyway because it's been cloudy and variably rainy all day.
This afternoon we were sitting on some building steps while I was stuffing my face with acaraje (Bahian shrimp quasi-taco) and he asked if I'd gotten the homework assignment from our teacher. Like any intelligent person I came back with "No, your girlfriend gave it to me." I am such a crazy character.
For my part, yesterday evening and night was spent watching Batman Begins for approximately the 900th time (I brought the DVD with me). At one point I pulled a bit of fuzz out of my navel. I wonder how long that'd been there.
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