Obsessed with the fact that, because Rebeca Andrade doesn’t speak English and Simone Biles doesn’t speak Portuguese, the vast majority of their interactions consists of giggling, enthusiastic nodding and variations of this:
3. At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
junior year of high school my emotionally abusive mom stopped taking me to school & tried to withdraw me to fuck with my education. i called the cops, got emancipated, moved out, and supported myself at 17 so i could keep going to school. i graduated valedictorian with a 4.0
Today I get to pay $300 to take a 3-hour English test in order to be eligible to stay in the country where I am employed to teach English language courses at an English language institution, a prerequisite for which was the PhD I earned at an English language university.
I took a trip to Mexico and my Airbnb was robbed while our group was passed out drunk. A car, 3 phones and 2 wallets were stolen. Long story short, the Mexican cartel helped us get the car, 2 phones and 1 wallet back and killed the kid who stole the stuff.
Today I was briefly supervising my friend’s class & a 5,000,000 gallon jug of hand sanitizer overbalanced & spilled all over the floor & the children said “what do we do?!” & I said “I don’t know I really wish I wasn’t the adult in here for this” & they all nodded understandingly