Lost in his new environment and shunned by the other boys, the 9-year-old James turns for comfort to a kindly, handsome teacher named Mr. Wolfe -- comfort that very quickly (and, on both sides, very willingly) takes the form of sex.
It was a feeling that began to creep up -- on the way to school, watching a TV show, reading a book, in science class with the handsome teacher -- and suddenly, we knew we were somehow very different.
The handsome young teacher beckoned me to jump into the pool and move my arms and legs to keep afloat.
Or what about Anas, a handsome Syrian teacher who does his hair using a piece of broken mirror before fleeing war-ravaged Aleppo in a taxi.
I'd known only one adopted girl when I was growing up, Becky Sussluch, who at sixteen was spoiled and beautiful and having an affair with a mussed and handsome student teacher whom I myself had a crush on.
Eliza has a hard time at the school; she believes she and the young, handsome music teacher are in love, and then discovers that he has been pretending while seeing Katherine.
There she meets Fern, an economist who manages the logistics of the project; Lamin, a handsome local teacher who's in charge of guiding them; and Hawa, a bubbly young woman who teaches English.
When young doctor Lily (Michelle Chen) and her handsome, kind teacher boyfriend, Neil Jackson Rathbonee), get into a car accident after he proposes and she resists, she wakes up to find herself married to his rival, Mitch Sung Kangg), with whom she apparently has a child.
There was a vulnerable performance of "The Art Teacher," about a young person's crush on a handsome instructor, and a poignant account of "Beauty Mark," dedicated to his mother.
He remembers rubbing the shoulders of his handsome Sunday-school teacher and thinking, Oh, this is fun, and also I shouldn't be doing this.
Her memory leads her back to adolescence, to the crush she and a friend shared on the handsome young riding teacher, the friend's affair with him and eventual pregnancy, and finally to her giving up their child for adoption.
