Megi's Mega Incident

Stay @ Home Dad

Well, when a woman doesn't work and has kids so she stays home to look after them, she's called a stay at home mum, but, there are the selected few men who does this too, Mr Deeson, needless to say, is one.

So, Megi got taken out of nursery school as she couldn't cope with the pressure, so her father took the job of home educating her, which will take ummm....... a while. Also, Mr Deeson also took up a pen pal, hence the @ instead of at. It's a joke, get it?

"Megi, look, you take a crayon and you......" no, let's not be bored with the process of Mr Deeson teaching Megi how to scribble on a bit of paper, which she has been learning for the whole day.

Yeah, I know, you're thinking any one can just take a crayon and scribble, It's not like a school topic or a talent or anything. You just take a pen and make some marks. Apparently, it's not the case for Megi, she doesn't even know hold a pen, or scribble, or work out where the paper  is.

No, she can't do any of those things, which is why she has to learn to scribble while other babies do it for fun. I think you know and worked out that Mrs Deeson is very strict, and she wasn't keen on the idea of Megi staying home, so she took 5 minutes of her precious TV time to organise the following schedule which keeps her child well out of her way.

It goes like this:

6:00 Wake Up, Breakfast, etc   7:00 Literature - Shakespear or Charles Dickens   8:00 Mathematics - Algerbra or Geometry   9:00 Science - Chemistry or Physics   10:00 History - The Reign of William the Conqueror   11:00 Geography - The River Nile   12:00 Lunch

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Yeah, the rest of her schedule is a repeat, with harder subjects, can you really expect a four year old to Geometry or study Shakespear? But since Mr Deeson stepped in as a school teacher, her schedule went more like......

10:00 - 18:00 All Play

 Can you spot the difference? But this chapter is only minorly about Megi and her...... scribble problems. It's more about Mr Deeson and his pen @ pal.

One day, he heard about some GCSE students having pen pals to improve their foreign languages, Mr Deeson is definitely not GCSE aged student. He's about 140 years old, older than Dumbledore in Harry Potter. And Dumbledore is like 300. Being in a house husband can sometimes be a bit...boring. So you can't really blame him for wanting a purpose in life, no matter how stupid it sounds. And having a pen pal isn't really a purpose, but it's something to do. And improving your French is at least a target, isn't it? Anyways, Mr Deeson never took French in his life, nor does he know even one word of French, but at least it's easier than Spanish, probably, but he never took Spanish either so he wouldn't know.

While Megi was trying to scribble, the proper way, as Mrs Deeson would call it, Mr Deeson heard a ping, from Stephane, the French student studying English, the way this works is that Stephane will write to Mr Deeson in English, then Mr Deeson will correct it and send a reply letter back, using French. Which can be a problem as you will see, and a dictionary might be involved too - a lot.

Bonjour, ca va? Je mappelle Lesley Deeson. (Hello, how are you? I am called Lesley Deeson)

Yes, that's all he managed, in 50 minutes time. Well, Mr Deeson isn't very good at French, or clever enough to use the online dictionary which is way faster than going down to WHSmiths and buying a French dictionary, And then not being smart enough to use it because he got confused about why there are two parts to it. All that took about 40 minutes, he used 10 minutes to translate 7 words, which was fast of him, knowing him.

Mr Deeson also decided to keep this secret from Mrs Deeson, as she was more interested in him....um, tidying up the house and minding over Megi. He was also supposed to be teaching Megi Algerbra and Charles Dickens. But that was hard since he doesn't know Algerbra himself. And never heard of Charles Dickens... Imgaine that, never heard of Charles Dickens!