The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too)
Not a quote but WTH? I read this this morning:
On to the quotes: 
A kid arrives and stares at the collection of pumpkins we have by the window:
Kid: ‘Teacher!! Pumpkin village!!!’
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While calling attendance:
Me: ‘Alicia?’
Kid: ‘She’s snowboarding.’
Me: ‘What?’
Kid: ‘No, I don’t know where she is.’
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Pointing at one of the kid-made bats on the door: 
Kid: ‘Ugly duckling!’
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Me, to a boy and a girl fighting: ‘Hey, don’t call people pandas! It’s not nice!’
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The Canadian One, re the giant bug he just killed and my gasp of horror that he’d killed it and not trapped it and released it like I usually do: ‘He had too many legs, he had to die.’
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The Canadian One re Alec Baldwin’s ever-changing hairstyles in 30 Rock: ‘Does he do that to f**k with me?!!’
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A grade one kid runs into my classroom.
Little Boy: ‘Today test?’
Me: ‘Yes.’
‘Word test?’
‘Yes.’
‘Omelette? Tea? Peach?’
‘Yes.’
‘YESSSSS!!!’
He was the only one who studied and then got 100% in the spelling test. Awwwwww!
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The Canadian One and I are constantly saying funny, but adult-centered things to each other.
Him: ‘You should do an adult version of Quote Friday…people would buy that!’
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This happened:
‘I order burritos online. Burritos arrive at 9:50am, frozen. I take one burrito to school. I spend morning poking burrito to see if it’s defrosted yet. I wait. I poke. I wait. I hold it. I get bored with holding it and put it on my desk. I stare at it. I poke. I deem it safe to eat. I eat it. And that’s been my morning thus far…I watched a burrito defrost.’
and this happened:
‘While walking to school this morning, I saw some kids running across the playground and immediately thought ‘F**k, I couldn’t run like that if I was being chased by a bear!”
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For more Quote Friday’s, check out:
- ‘I am NO potato.’ – October 19th 2012
- ‘I am from Martian Land.’ – October 12th 2012
- RE: Obama: ‘I don’t wanna see his mustache all over the TV’ – October 5th 2012
- ‘Teacher, STOP TALKING!’ – September 28th 2012
- ‘Oh teacher, your font is very good.’ – September 21st 2012
- ‘Giraffe is no tall.’ – September 14th 2012
- ‘Teacher’s head is sad.’ – September 6th 2012
- ‘Kids can be evil.’ – August 31st 2012
- ‘I’M NOT OK!!!’ – August 24th 2012
- ‘Ah, do you live Gangnam Style?’ – August 17th 2012
- ‘BUT I GO TO THE SEA!!’ – August 10th 2012
- ‘I’m sorry I flicked s**t at you.’ – August 3rd 2012
- ‘Give me your coffee.’ – July 20th 2012
- ‘I am McGyver!!’ – July 13th 2012
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