Drrrrrrt Drrrrrrt

You know what's funny in any language?...Talking about cutting the cheese, or passing gas, or letting one rip, or just plain old farting. Yes, that is always funny. Today with my 6th graders we were learning about Hawaii and volcanoes and one of my students, Nencho, said "Volcanoes go drrrrt drrrrrt." And I was like "huh?" And then all the kids started laughing. I asked "what is drrrt drrrt" (no "drrrt" is not a word - it's just that sound). And Loretta said, "it's when air comes out of your guss" - and she pointed at her butt. Aha! Then I got what she was talking about and what Nencho was saying. As soon as the kids saw my look of understanding they all started laughing. And then they asked me how you say that in English and what is it called when air comes out of a person's butt. Well, being that I'm here to teach English, I couldn't very well deny them their thirst for knowledge...so I told them that the verb is "to fart" and the noun is "fart." Oh...and guss is "butt." Yeah, after that the rest of the lesson just went to pot and all the kids could do was say "so-and-so is farting" or "so-and-so likes to fart." The teacher in me frowned...for a second, but then the kid in me took over and I was laughing along with the kids. Oh, what a great day in English class!