A new craze has hit CVK. All the coolest middle schoolers are doing it. The official toy of the season: yo-yos. There must have been a yo-yo sale nearby; they appeared in droves and have invaded every classroom.
Never a yo-yo-er myself, I still remember how cool yo-yos were around the time I was in middle school. The tricks were limitless. Clearly, time and patience had been dedicated to learning, practicing, and then mastering each one. Though, this isn’t necessarily the case with our Thai students.
Just getting the yo-yo to do the stall-at-the-end-while-spinning thing is enough to provide them with endless entertainment. Half of the kids are so short that not hitting the ground is a trick in itself.
Was this a problem that we also had in fifth, sixth, and seventh grade? I cannot remember ever being that tiny. Were we technically too short to be using a yo-yo, or are the Thais just smaller by nature? I suppose it’s somewhere in the middle. But one thing is for sure: yo-yos are apparently destined to be popular in middle school, forever.