raising the fur

I absolutely love my housewives’ class. I have three women, all of
which were my students for the year I was here nearly two years ago. We
got to know each other pretty well during that time. We’ve discussed
every topic imaginable, laughed together, even cried together. We’re a
good fit and we love our classes together. I learn just as much as they
do, during our lessons.

Today, we were discussing how women the world over love to talk and
gossip. One of the housewives, Rose, said that ‘s why women don’t grow
moustaches. Too busy talking. But this is how she put it: “there’s no time to raise the fur”. Oh, how we laughed over that one.

Then the conversation changed to environmental matters and not sure how
the subject of animal dung came up, but boy, did it! After telling me
that the Korean word for dung is actually ddong.. I can’t believe how many times we all said dung during
a 5 – 10 minute conversation. We were all crying with laughter. It went
on to explanations of how ‘manure’ is big animal dung. Jessy looked it
up in her dictionary, and was trying to pronounce what came up.. “ex..
excr…”  I piped in with “excrement”.  She continued to
check her dictionary, and then the two of them, in their genteel Korean
voices looked up at me and sweetly said, “oh.. shit?”  I laughed and said, “No no no no no no noooooooo! Ladies, no shit!”  We laughed and laughed.

When I was telling Russell, the other foreign teacher at my school,
about this conversation lesson, he said to me, “Oh so you’re basically
talking sh#t in your lessons!”

Au contraire.

We were just making sure there wasn’t time to raise the fur.