Who taught: Lauren

When learning a new expression, you need to try to have your own picture. What do I mean by that? Let me give you an example.

A few days ago, my friend Lauren posted a question on my Facebook timeline. She said, “Eating the frog first. Are you familiar with this one?”

I find it is harder to guess or figure out the meaning of an expression by myself when there is no context given.

No doubt that we all know what frog is and what eating means! But, good news is that Lauren herself was not familiar with this expression till that Morning when she heard it from her friend. So, it is OK to not to be able to figure out what it means.

So, this is it. Why don’t you figure out by yourself?

Ha! I am joking. After a few comments by Lauren and myself, I was able to have my own picture for this expression.

Every Morning, you have different foods that you can eat for a whole day. Some of them are your favorites but some of them are not so much. In fact, you do not like it at all but you know you should eat it on that day because, if not, it will go bad. So, those foods that you do not like at all are considered to be your frogs. With this kind of choice, what would you eat first? Frogs or your favorite foods? To me, eating the frog first will definitely make me feel better during the day because I know all I need to do for the rest of the day is to eat my favorite foods. Hooray!

So, do you get it?

I like writing blog posts but sometimes it does not make me that excited but I know I really should write one.

In that case, writing a blog post early Morning in a day can be my eating the frog first of the day.

What’s yours? Have you eaten the frog yet?

Lauren told me that she took an exam at 8 am. That’s for sure a perfect example of eating the frog first, right?