Kids are so clever~

I just typed out a long(ish) e-mail to my family so! being the lazy person that I am. . .

Copy & Paste *with a few more details added to this.

My first day of "teaching" was today, but I only met the fifth graders. This is because the first day back from a long break is spent cleaning the classrooms. The kids clean~! I had the fifth graders for 40 minutes and they just asked me questions the whole time. They were very impressed that I knew so many Korean Pop artists and liked it even more than I could dance to some of the songs. One little boy kept telling me to sing a song. I cannot sing, but he kept asking if I knew Korean songs. I misunderstood the question and thought he meant did I know of any songs... Not can you sing the Korean songs. (_ _ ;; ) I sang two words from one song. Haru Haru(하루하루). ~which means day by day. He loved it. These kids are easily pleased. (<<>

A popular question is "Teacher Skye, do you have a boyfriend?" (the other teachers have asked me this as well.) The conversation with the students went like this:

☺"Teacher Skye, do you have a boyfriend?"

☺"Hahaha, noooo~"

☺"Teacher Skye!"

☺"Yes?"

☺"Do you have a best friend?"

☺"Yes, I do have a best friend."

☺"Is it a man or a woman?"

☺"... A man."
☺"Oooooooo BOYFRIEND!!"

I should apologize to my friend for that one. Haha, they're so clever. First the table of girls asked me that then the table of boys. They seated themselves. Both tables after asking if my best friend was a man or woman immediately responded with "Oooo"s when I told them man. Aha~

The keyboard at my computer stopped working today. T_T Hopefully I will have another one tomorrow, but I will have less free time while at school tomorrow. .. Oh, I am at home now... I only work half days. Wednesdays and Fridays- I work from 9:50am to 12:30pm, but they asked me today if I would teach the kindergartners as well. I agreed to teach them twice a week for 30 minutes. ***Cut out the typed out schedule.. Here's a picture instead:

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There are two different sets of books I have to use. For Wednesdays and Fridays(morning classes), I use the books provided by the school and I just follow the teacher's guide and CD-rom. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays ~ I am required to use the TaLK English book. I have to prepare lesson plans from this book. Nine lessons per week. We will see how my lesson planning works out tomorrow when I meet 1st and 2nd grade. 5th and 6th graders are pretty awesome. They are quite willing to talk to me.. whether it be English or Korean. (= ='')

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Oh, my co-teachers are coffee drinkers! That makes me soo happy. It makes them happy, too, I think. I will be eating lunch at the cafeteria thanks to my principal (ko jang? seon-saeng-nim. seonsaengnim or 선생님 means teacher. ) ... however the food they serve for lunch..isn't bad, but spicy. I'm use to Korean cafeteria food by now (almost three weeks of it already.. haha) kimchi and rice is always served. Then there about 3 other sides that are prepared. Everyone at school is very worried I won't like the food. I tried to eat everything on my tray since lunch is provided courtesy of the Principal and so they don't worry so much... but I don't eat that much. (TT^TT) I couldn't finish my soup or rice. I ate all of my kimchi though ^_^ Oh, when people ask about my favorite [Korean] food I answer with kimchi and patbingsu. Kimchi is always a popular answer... supposedly it makes me more korean~ (^_^;;) Patbingsu is a dessert/snack of shaved ice, sweet red beans and other items. Ice cream and fruits usually. It is delicious. It's also a popular answer.

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Okay - lesson planning time. (x_x).. Byebye~