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Dalton · Joined: 26 Mar 2003

I had a student in a class of of about 8 mixed sex 10 year olds asking me what the famous four letter f-word meant. I had some fun with it' I told him to ask his gym teacher for instance. That was my first year teaching and prior to that I had zero experience with kids.

Suddenly the class boy genious launches into an explanation complete with hand and finger depictions, naming the parts etc. I was speechless. I had never experienced that sensation before. My mouth was obviously agape as I stared in utter disbelief. Everyone was listening and and watching in rapt silence.

The class girl genius noticed and said 'It's all right teacher' and told the boy to stop. Because of me I'm sure. He did. That was without a doubt one the funniest things that has ever happened to me here.

It was also just one of a long list of things that caused me to continue coming back here for more. Kids can be an absolute riot. What other job offers what this one does. IMHO

sarahsarah · Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Location: Bundang

This one is kinda cheesy but it brightened my day...

Question: What do flowers smell like?

Answer: Flowers smell happy.

That's just so darn cute.

shortskirt_longjacket · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:

this comes from an innocent kindergartener:

my co-worker had this fill-in-the-blank activity for her kindees where they look at a picture and answer the questions. one of the questions was:

The bug is eating __________________.

the answer was: The bug is eating box.

hee hee!

dull artist · Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Location: Osan

Dalton · Joined: 26 Mar 2003

The Korean KG teachers took al the KG's to an outdoor pool for a whole day.
10-5. When they came back one of the kids came into the teachers room. I asked her 'Did you have fun?' Everyone's ears perked up because none of us knew for sure if she would understand the question. She thought for a moment and said 'no'. After a bit of hangul fuss and amusement from all I asked her if she liked swimming and she said 'no'.

Paji eh Wong · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

I've said this already, and it's from a K English teacher, but it bears repeating.

"Teacher doesn't pay when eating out the students"

This guy went on to tell us he was half German and was from Seattle, and then tried to teach me how to teach english for the next three hours.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Today a slightly dyslexic first grader with a poor grasp of long vowel sounds wrote "I like to ride my d ick."

So I put a motivtional praise sticker on his paper which said, "Keep it up!"

JaphieR · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: Bundang

manlyboy · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

We studied the book "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park. In hangeul, the author's name sounds kind of like "dirty watermelon", so the kids were taking the "beep" out of the book right from the start. After they had finished reading it , the assignment was to write a letter to the author. One kid's letter went something like this:

Dear Mrs Park,
My name is Sam, and I have question. Why is your book so boring? Who cares about Pottery? Your name is little bit make laugh. Do you like WWE?
Sincerely,
Sam

PS: You must write back.

McNasty · Joined: 04 Jul 2003

The assignment was write 2 sentences about things you use at school.

The student wrote:

"My p enis small." with 'pen' and 'is' being placed way too close together.

That got a few chuckles in the office.

ajstew · Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Location: Korea

At my university one of the English Profs asked me to proof-read their child's English speech for a competition they were having at the end of the 1st term.

The child visited this place where a lot of kids with disabilities live in Korea... some place with "flower" in it anyway. Getting to the point, the idea of the speech was to show how people must look at all children as being valuable and as having a deep inner beauty that makes all children the same.

And then describing one of the beautiful kids who had an inner beauty like herself, she writes... "And there was this one kid... who had a head that looked like a watermelon". Shocked

I'm thinking... yep... you've really looked deep into what makes all people equal. Rolling Eyes

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

One of my Chinese students wrote in her reflective journal:

"I have to w ank harder on my writing"

Shocked

I had to agree. Laughing

(great thread skirty)

McNasty · Joined: 04 Jul 2003

Today one of my students wrote this:

In the morning, I eat breakfart with my brother and sister. Shocked

I couldn't stop laughing and the kids chimed in as well. I'm sure the kids didn't get the joke but we all had a chuckle, even the writer.

bulgogiboy · Joined: 12 Nov 2003

Sometimes the Konglish messages in kids T-shirts are really funny. I had a kid of about 10 years who wore a hooded sweatshirt with "BJ Kids" written on it.

My fellow waeguk co-worker and I had a laugh about that.

Sounds like a certain reclusive popstar's dream come true...

babonomad · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

HMMM...let's see...just today I had, My chicken like to play the soccer.

On a Let's Go 1 quiz, in the fill in the blank portion where the speech bubbles should have read "Hi, how are you? I'm fine. Thank you" a very young student wrote "How, you are fine. I'm hi. Thank you." (Part marks awarded..)

From a fellow teacher when asked what she was up to on a Saturday afternoon..."Not much. I enjoy the free time...mmm...I just want to play with myself."

If I go any further, I may begin to question my teaching methods. Quite frankly, there's 4 or 5 humdingers in a day, but my favourites are still uttered from my employer's mouth. But not tonight...he may be reading.