Our Han Teacher 2/ 我們的漢人老師 2

The Secret of Being Shoeless 不穿鞋好處多

Our Han teacher doesn't understand why we don't like to wear shoes. She reminds us to wear shoes every day. She even gives us extra credits if we wear shoes to school. But, most of us just don't like wearing shoes. Why?

"It's too much trouble," A-Dai tells the teacher, "like doing things with gloves. When we wear shoes, our toes can't feel the ground. It's hard to walk like that."

"And....," Shieh adds, " it's easier to do math problems without shoes." He hates math.

"Why is that? " the teacher gets more confused.

Holding up his hands, he explains, "like 6 + 8, you will run out of fingers, then, you can count your toes."

The teacher bursts out laughing, "really?"

Everybody nods. She doesn't know that when she called people to the front to do math problems on the blackboard, the ones who looked down to their feet were actually counting their toes.

The teacher laughs again, then she asks, "What if you run out of your toes, too?"

"Then, you can count other people's toes," Shieh knows this trick more than anybody else.

The teacher laughs again. Really, she doesn't know anything.

One day, she is surprised that everybody is wearing shoes. She is so happy that she decides to give everyone some extra credits.

"Finally, you all wear shoes, isn't that something?" she said. I guess this is not a question. But she is still curious enough to ask us, "why did everybody remember to wear shoes today?"

Shieh immediately holds up his hand, and says, "because it's very cold today."

The teacher looks surprised again, she pauses a second, then she bursts out the biggest laugh ever! So loud and sudden, like a wild boar bolting out of woods.

Now we know that every time our Han teacher understands something, she bursts out laughing like a wild boar. We like it, and we like our teacher. She seems to know us more and more every day.

老師不懂我們為甚麼不愛穿鞋子，她每天都提醒我們要穿鞋，還說有穿鞋子還可以加分，但是大家還是不想穿。 為什麼呢？
“穿鞋子很麻煩耶，“阿岱告訴老師，“就像帶手套做事一樣，穿鞋子的時候，腳趾感覺不到土地，很難走路。“
“而且不穿鞋子的時候，算數學很方便，“謝光正說，他最討厭算數學。
“為甚麼？“ 老師又不懂了。
光正舉起手來解釋給老師聽，“像 6+8 的時候，手指頭不夠算，還可以算腳趾頭。“
老師噗刺一聲笑出來，“真的嗎？“
大家點點頭，老師都不知道她叫大家到黑板上算數學題目的時候，低頭往下看的人都在數腳指頭。

“那腳趾頭也不夠數了怎麼辦？“ 老師問。
“可以數別人的腳指頭阿。“ 光正最有經驗了。
老師又笑了，她真是甚麼都不懂。

有一天，她驚訝的發現大家都穿鞋了，很高興說要給大家加分。不過她還是很好奇的問：“為甚麼今天大家都記得穿鞋了呢？“
光正馬上舉手說：“因為...今天天氣很冷。“
老師聽完愣了一下，又噗刺一聲笑出來，笑的好大聲，像山豬暴衝一樣，我們喜歡老師，因為她懂我們的時候，就會暴衝大笑，我們都覺得很好笑。