We make eye contact too :3 It's funny because I'm a bit of an overachiever so I always sit front and center and try to answer all the questions (yeah, I'm THAT person XD)
I have two classes in a row with him and before the first one I came to his office hours because I couldn't figure out this one problem for the life of me. And he tried to help, but I just couldn't focus and still didn't understand it. And he's not one of those profs who just gives you the answer, he wants you to figure it out by yourself. So after like 20 minutes of him trying to explain it to me and me mostly just giving him blank "deer-in-the-headlights" stare I felt really embarrassed for not being able to figure it out, so I just awkwardly thanked him and left. I felt so bad I couldn't look at him all for all of the first lecture and I it was really weird because usually he'd ask a question and I'd answer it immediately, but this time I was kinda stressed, so I just shut down and every time he asked something there would be this long awkward silence because noone else ever says anything until he eventually answers his own question...
He also tried teaching us some Irish phrases would write one on the board each class.
I looked up a couple on my own time and wrote them on my homework. Like greetings and blessings and nice things like that and he actually wrote back in Irish when he handed them back That made me happy XD
I know, I'm a dork XD