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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:13 am Post subject: How do preschoolers see us? |
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I work in a preschool in the mornings
and in an language school in the afternoons.
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When I finished working at the preschool this morning,
one of the preschoolers asked, "Where are you going?
Are you going home? Are you going to the United States?"
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Apparently, she thinks that I still live in the United States since I am from there.
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To change the garbage into hangul,
click on Bogi/Inkoding/Hangeol. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:44 am Post subject: |
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And my mum lives in Australia. WOW!  That one freaks them out. Though I wouldn't pin this solely on Korean kids. I think any kids are freaked out by the thought of being separated from Mummy.
Some of them are also confused that I am married and that I don't have a baby. Conversations are something like this:
Student: Teacher... married?
Me: Yes?
Student: Teacher... baby...have?
Me: No.
Student: But married?
Me: Yes, I'm married but I don't have a baby.
Student: (  ) But you married?
Me: Yes I'm married, but no babies, not yet...
Student stares at breasts and looks confused ...
Me: Well, you should get an eyeful when and if I do have one! |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:39 am Post subject: |
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����! ����־�!
Me too! So funny!
���� ������. �츮 �л��� �ֱ��.
But it's okay. Our students are babies... |
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Korea Newfie
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
Location: Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:53 am Post subject: Re: How do preschoolers see us? |
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| How do preschoolers see us? |
I am the largest living thing most of my students have ever seen. While chances are, I wouldn't get a second look in a group of foreigners (well, for anything aside from my devestatingly good looks that is  ).
I think my kids all grasp that I live nearby, but it's funny to see the looks on their little faces when they see Newfoundland on a map. The ones who can grasp distances really get weirded out by the thought of being so far away. |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| one word ... monsters |
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Circus Monkey
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: In my coconut tree
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Big, giant beasts that can eat them! Either that or we are the same height as the apartment buildings.
CM |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| perhaps we are as freaky looking to them as giant squids are to humble fishermen. plus, we have hair on our arms. this could qualify us, in their eyes, as the trolls which live under bridges they read about in their little story books. trolls with wide, rolling, roving eyes on the lookout for tender young flesh to put on a spit and roast to perfection! run away, run away! |
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