scroll to the bottom for more video footageSo as you may guess, they do not celebrate Halloween here in Korea. However, since the kids are in English classes everday and there are 8 Western teachers at my school, the school decided to go all out in celebrating Halloween. I will be taking pictures tomorrow of the actual school and its hilarious signs (one that declares "halloween happy" instead of happy halloween). The kids, as a result are going absolutely berzerk and are so excited to have their foreign teachers dress up (me in a jail suit....fitting, since they called me a hood lum.) They of course have gone overload on the candy, numb on the brain, and fairly unwilling to actually do their work in class. For the past week they have all mumbled and grumbled about tests, homework, and expressed shock that I would be upset that they didn't in fact do any of their work.
Now, I know that I am well known back in the states and at the Y in particular for being quite the cool counselor with kids. Probably because my father himself has never quite grown up and I was raised in a family and extended family that saw teasing as the most affectionate form of showing someone you care. So I'm a sarcastic teaser by nature, born and bred. Anyway, despite this fact, I still find it difficult to do my job when the kids are ranting away in Korean during class because their tongues have become lazy for the more difficult English language. The other day some kids were giggling and looking at me while laughing and speaking in Korean, and I got the sneaking suspicion that they were in fact laughing at me, their English teacher!!! ;)
We are supposed to be hard on them for speaking Korean in English class, but I rarely am (only when they go overboard with it). If I were in their shoes, at their age, I'd be calling my English teacher every name in the book because I'd know they wouldn't understand a word of it. But I convince myself that these kids are too polite and too nice to ever do something like that.....or maybe I'm just being naive....
Anyway, I'm going to try and upload one of the cutest videos I've taken of these 3 kindergarteners that always attack me when I go to eat lunch (I only work with older kids, so I am fresh Western meat for them to prey on. They are incredibly adorable. Watch carefully for the boy with the mullet, he's my favorite.) Don't they remind you of little American kids trying to outdo one another for attention? I love it.
Love from my end of the world,
Lindsey
Now, I know that I am well known back in the states and at the Y in particular for being quite the cool counselor with kids. Probably because my father himself has never quite grown up and I was raised in a family and extended family that saw teasing as the most affectionate form of showing someone you care. So I'm a sarcastic teaser by nature, born and bred. Anyway, despite this fact, I still find it difficult to do my job when the kids are ranting away in Korean during class because their tongues have become lazy for the more difficult English language. The other day some kids were giggling and looking at me while laughing and speaking in Korean, and I got the sneaking suspicion that they were in fact laughing at me, their English teacher!!! ;)
We are supposed to be hard on them for speaking Korean in English class, but I rarely am (only when they go overboard with it). If I were in their shoes, at their age, I'd be calling my English teacher every name in the book because I'd know they wouldn't understand a word of it. But I convince myself that these kids are too polite and too nice to ever do something like that.....or maybe I'm just being naive....
Anyway, I'm going to try and upload one of the cutest videos I've taken of these 3 kindergarteners that always attack me when I go to eat lunch (I only work with older kids, so I am fresh Western meat for them to prey on. They are incredibly adorable. Watch carefully for the boy with the mullet, he's my favorite.) Don't they remind you of little American kids trying to outdo one another for attention? I love it.
Love from my end of the world,
Lindsey
2 comments:
I see that little kids in Korea are just as rambunctious as those here. That video reminds me of my life saying "no pushing" for 7 hours a day. My throat hurts! I like how you speak to the kids with a slight Korean accent.
It's true....and trust me, you'll start speaking with a weird, semi slow accent....
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