So I start off the day wanting to try a new exercise asking the kids in my class (age 10-12) if they wanted to bring anyone they wanted to the classroom, who would it be.  I guess I had just planned this right after I walked in and the kids were arguing about the stuff going on with Japan.  Goes like this:

Me:  Kevin, who would you like to bring to the class?

Kevin:  Mumbles some Chinese to the TA, in which the TA tells him what to say.   "I want to bring the Japan president son her to China!"

Me:  Ummm, why do you want to bring him.

Kevin:  Whispers in TA's ear, and she tells him what to say again.  "Because I want to threaten him to stop be mean to China!"  (He also had both his hands in what to appear to be a neck choking gesture.  WTF!!!) 

I thought that these kids would not care about it, but after that they started another uproar about the whole thing in which the TA told me that they are very angry about it, and these kids are pretty docile.  I grew up during Dessert Storm when they invaded Iraq the first time and my grandmother tried to show me what was going on.  At the time i was only 9, and i didnt give a rats ass, I wanted to go play with my friends!  I guess should we be happy they are up on current events?