Today was my last day working as a TA in a fifth grade class, and I’ve been compiling a list of gems this past year. Here are a few of them.

Ramfis: "I like Donald Trump, he's going to give us more days off of school."

Eldin: "I feel bad for the Titanic."

Christopher: "You have to show courage or else you will die."

Kathy: "Why do you need money if you have love?" Kathy, 5 seconds later: "You're a selfish human being who only cares about money!"

Eric: "So you're saying that penguins have a wife?" [they do, it turns out penguins are monogamous]

Justin: "If I was the king, I could do anything?" I could have a million girlfriends?"

Chris [Oregon Trail unit]: "Nightswatchman, why did the pioneers have to bring food? Couldn't they just like pick mangoes or something?" Chris [While playing Oregon Trail game]: "If we run out of food, can't we just shoot one of the other families and take their food?"

Justin: "He's so fat. When he farts he makes global warming."

Alyssa: "If Donald Chu* [she's Asian, she meant Trump] become president he will crash airplane and blow up the city."

Emperess: "Why are you not married yet?"

Chris: "Oooh, it's your birthday? You going to the club?"

Christopher: "War is bad because people die. You might not think it's a big deal because there's billions of people, but the government gets less money." [Christopher is woke AF]

Bing [space research project]: "Nobody live on Jupiter because it is very light and it is a gas planet."

Kathy [Korea research project]: "Communism is when you talk bad about the government you get in trouble."

Athena [Korea research project]: "Kim Jong-il doesn't let people watch South Korean movies or they will get in trouble and someone will come to there home and bring them somewhere and put a bag on their head and tie them to something and then someone will shoot them."

Eldin [video game research project]: "Have you ever thought the PS4 and Xbox one was the same, well you're wrong. Ha, you got a lot to learn."

Bing [on one of the goodbye cards I received today]: "I will miss you when you leave. You are usefull sometimes." Thanks, Bing.

Christopher: [space research project]: "They used animals to be first in space so nothing bad could happen to people but I don't get that animals have to get sacrifist not the humans that is weird and mean and rude for them to do that."