I just watched the cartoon dialogue for 5th Grade Lesson 10: Do You Want Some More?

The animated black kid, a guest at his friend's home for Chuseok, held his chopsticks the "wrong way," while his host held his chopsticks the "right way." The ending joke was when the visitor's bulgogi flew out of his chopsticks and was eaten by the dog.SIGNIFICANT

Koreans eat with a combination of chopsticks and spoons. I've made a habit of watching carefully to see what techniques people use for eating different foods - do they just use chopsticks? Just spoons? A combination of the two? Are they interchangable? And I discovered that most of the Koreans I am acquainted with do not use chopsticks the way that ( Read more... )

A: I think you should just hotbox your classroom. That would calm the boys down. And when they wanted munchies, they would have to ask in English. "Teacher, please can I have some candy? Please can I have some rice?" Hungry, happy, sleepy ( Read more... )

Me: I let my fourth graders listent to Wondergirls while they drew pictures today.
Jumi: For girls, listen to music and draw, is okay. Boys, no. Can't. Males...males? Males...they can't do two things at same time.
Neal: I enjoy multitasking!
Jumi: No! You are a male, is impossible!

(written on Saturday ( Read more... )

Yesterday I scrubbed my bedroom floor with a towel on my hands and knees, and reassembled the prefab bedframe the teacher before me took apart (and tortured some, it seems). By the by, dear manufacturers of cheap prefab bedframes: Koreans floor their houses in VINYL. This means things cannot slide. Please engineer your furniture accordingly ( Read more... )

Fifth grade, first thing in the morning: zombies who have lost the will to be undead. My coteacher enters the classroom, where for the past thirty minutes I have been attempting to teach the possessives. She looks at me, she looks at the fifth graders' blank faces, she gives me a rather stern look. She begins speaking in Korean, checking to see how ( Read more... )

It is simply amazing how fast all my free time can vanish when I study Korean. Good thing too, since Dad crushed my dreams of teaching myself accordion (just kidding). Maybe if I sign on for another year I'll use my trip home to pick up the accordion and an instructional DVD ( Read more... )

What a long f-ing weekend! I hope everyone had fun at Mom's wedding reception, et cetera, but I spent most of Saturday on a bus ( Read more... )

Just legitimately saw a manpurse running by. Not a men's version of a purse, but a man in hot pink spandex polo shirt running past with a pleather purse with silver buckles.