Last week I got a new student at Shell Brasil. First classes are great because there isn’t much work involved. It’s just a basic conversation where you try to get to know your future student a bit better. Somewhere in the middle of the conversation he told me he’s keen on rock music. Specially heavy rock and he said his favourite bands are AC/DC, Kiss, Purple, Sabbath, you know, all the good stuff! In the middle of the list he did mention Maiden. And as you may have noticed, Maiden is kind of a magical word for me. So I said: “Maiden, huh? Great! Did you go to their gig 3 weeks ago?” Do you know what he said? He said: “Nah, I’m too old for that!”.
Hey, wait a minute, stop right there! Come on! Too old for what? Too old to have fun? Did I hear it right? Unfuckingbelievable!
You know, I’m sick and tired of these people who use age as an excuse for everything. Really am!
Hi, I'm Fernando Souza. An ESL teacher based in Rio de Janeiro who works for language schools and multinational companies. At the moment I’m working on a distance learning project based on moodle.
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Damn!
That really sux, I’m tired of this kind of people too! It because some time ago I was with the same thoughts, feeling really strange about my age and things that I was doing.
Well, I’m feeling better now about it, I saw… don’t have fun because you’re old, doesn’t make a sense.
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