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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: My student and his umbrella |
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Keep this short,
It's raining and I had to walk across the field. Little grade 1 (2nd smallest kid in the school) hauls as$ (are those the correct words for that expression?) and opens his umbrella to keep me dry (he does have a strangely large umbrella). He won't let me hold it either so there was a bit of scrunching. I wish I had a pic, he is the most adorable thing ever. I love my students. Sometimes they behave bad, but they are always good. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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A couple of years ago I got off the bus into a rain storm. A couple of middle school kids held their umbrellas over my head and walked me home. Total strangers. Pretty nice thing for someone to do. Another time, an old dude gave me his baseball cap off his head so I wouldn't get wet.
Frankly, I'm not so averse to getting wet as the locals are, but I'm not one to turn down a gesture of friendliness.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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I was walking down the street one day when it was raining lightly and I didn't have an umbrella. Someone came running up from behind and it was one of my students with her little girlie umbrella that was hardly big enough for one person, much less two. So my half my head and one shoulder got slightly less wet.
Do things like that happen to teachers in the west? Language barriers aside I think we really have it better off here. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the shit they have to put up with. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the *beep* they have to put up with. |
hadn't thought of that. Boy am I glad I was a kid in Canada. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the *beep* they have to put up with. |
hadn't thought of | | |
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