The Ketchup War

The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too)

And so the week wraps up with the start of my vacation week and a month of uncertainty to follow. You see, yesterday, my company announced that my school no longer wishes to partake in the after-school English programme anymore thus rendering both my job and my co-teacher’s job obsolete…aka, we were let go. Or at least we will be come August 31st.

‘I am supposed to tell you after vacation but I thought I would tell you before so you can prepare.’ – My manager trying to give me the silver lining of ‘in a month you’ll have no job and unless you find one, you may not have a visa to stay in the country either…oh and you’ll also have no health insurance…’

In other, school related matter, this has been the first week of the ‘summer schedule’, whereby my students are on vacation from normal school and come to me in the daytime instead. Half my students are missing / away in a far flung, much more interesting land, and the classes are starting a whole four hours earlier than usual. Any takers on what the most complained about thing has been this week?

Yep, kids moaning that they’re in class at 10am on a vacation day and that it’s hot outside. Very very hot outside.

Oh and I now teach Science and Art as a special ‘summer class’ for grades 1-3…who speak absolutely zero English…and the classes are 75 minutes long…Here’s a sample of what we made this week:

As usual, never to be outdone, my students in their art class just prior to mine, made these:

Moving on!

This week also deal with the aftermath of Mosquito Attack 2012:

My students regarding the GIANT blotches all over my legs:

Kid, staring at my legs: ‘Teacher….um….cry?’

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Kid: ‘Teacher, why?!!’

Me: ‘Mosquitoes.’

Kid: ‘A BIG MOSQUITO?!!!’

Me: ‘No no, there was more than one!’

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I scratch my leg in class.

Kid: ‘TEACHER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!’

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Kid, giving advice on how to kill a mosquito: ‘Teacher, baseball bat and hit.’

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A kid is lying on a desk.

Me: ‘Andrew, you can’t sleep on the desk in class.’

Kid: ‘I’m not sleeping on the desk. I’m sleeping on my hand.’

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Me, reading the sentence in the book: ‘It is fun to tickle the little baby.’

Kid: ‘PICKLE???!!’

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The Web-Designing Singer regarding me saying ‘Dor-ee-toes’ as oppose to ‘Dor-ee-do’: ‘The British always like to put T into things, it’s like they get halfway through a word and think ouuu let’s stop for some T, shall we?’

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Next week there’ll be no Quote Friday as I’m on a week off school but it’ll be back August 10th. In the meantime, feel free to check out past Quote Friday’s here:

• ‘Give me your coffee.’ – July 20th 2012
• ‘I am McGyver!!’ – July 13th 2012
• ‘They think we’re American.’ – July 6th 2012
• ‘He said I am sweet potato.’ – June 29th 2012
• ‘A SNOOOOOOW PERSON!’ – June 22nd 2012
• ‘I did my homework with a paintbrush.’ – June 15th 2012
• ‘Some new quotes and Top 11 quotes from The Wall’ – June 9th 2012
• ‘I am Mommy Monster!’ – May 25th 2012
• ‘Why do you have tadpoles in my class?’ – May 18th 2012
• ‘He looks smart.’ – May 11th 2012
• ‘His skin is bling bling?’ – May 4th 2012
• And, of course, in the Index