The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too)
With the kids all having mid-terms this week, they’ve all been disinterested in talking much in class other than:
Before the test: ‘WAIT! WAIT!!’ and ‘WHAT TEST?!!’
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I’m smiling.
Kid: ‘Why happy?’
Me: ‘I’m just happy. I’m allowed to be happy.’
Kid: ‘No.’
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Me: ‘Stop talking.’
Kid: ‘English?’
Me: ‘No, all talking. Stop all talking.’
Kid: ‘What about body language?’
Me: ‘No.’
Kid: ‘But body language is type of language.’
Me: ‘Shhhhhhhh!’
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Little Boy: ‘I’m hard, tired and hungry.’
Me, mishearing him: ‘If you’re hot, take off your jacket.’
Little boy: ‘NO! I’m not hot. I’M HARD.’..o.O
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The kids are writing a page about their favorite vacation.
Kid: ‘How you spell island?’
Me: ‘Island? Which island?’
Kid: ‘Your island.’
Me: ‘Oh, Ireland. You’ve never been to Ireland. Write about something you know.’
Pause.
Kid: ‘How you spell island?’
Kid 2: ‘IRE-LAND. I? R?’
Me: ‘Yeah.’
Kid 2: ‘E? L-A-N-D.’
Me: ‘Nice! That was a good guess!’
The two kids run to the map on the wall to search for Ireland. They find it and Kid 1 puts his hands triumphantly in the air.
Kid 1: ‘WE’RE THE BIGGER!!! YAY!!!!’
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Kid: ‘KUNG FU PANTIES!!’
No…I don’t know why he said that either.
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Kid: ‘I go to Canada. I see the Canada famous food. I eat the Canada famous food. I step on maple leaves.’
Me: ‘Have you been to Canada?’
Kid: ‘No.’
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During a test: Kid, to me: ‘What’s answer B?’
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Kid: ‘No pencil!’
Me: ‘Anyone have a pencil to give Roy?’
All shake their heads.
Me: ‘I’ll give you a sticker if you give him a pencil.’
Five kids hold up pencils to give him.
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For more Quote Fridays, check out:
- ‘Oh my God, I’m YAWDA!!’ – January 4th 2012
- ‘Do you Obama?’ – December 21st 2012
- ‘YOU are OUT of the line!’ – December 14th 2012
- ‘He’s on a date.’ – December 7th 2012
- ‘Are you many many crazy?’ – November 30th 2012
- ‘I rolled too far.’ – November 23rd 2012
- ‘Robot Making Class.’ – November 16th 2012
- ‘Throw in giant spiders.’ – November 9th 2012
- ‘Hey, don’t call people pandas!’ – October 26th 2012
- ‘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
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