Fairly Funny Events that Happened at School this Week:

Kids Calling Out Kids:

The desks are placed two by two at Kim & Lee, and one of my students, "Sean" who has a rather boisterous personality, used to sit solo. He is something of a loner in the class, though full of vibrance and hilarity. He has the best half-cackle laugh, which shows off his funny little crooked smile. This week "Sean" started sitting next to one of the other students, "Sam". "Sam" is King of Funny Faces, and randomly calling out "Teacher is beautiful."

On Monday "Sean" got a little out of control with imitating the listening tape. He made himself sound like he was a broken record, "Sally has two blue shoes, Sally has two blue shoes, Sally has two blue shoes." Everyone else ignored him, but "Sam" looked me straight in the eyes, and crossed his own eyes proceeding to do the weirdo-o sign: twirling of the index finger near the head. I lost it, I just couldn't stop laughing. "Sean" was oblivious the whole time, still calling out, "Sally has two blue shoes, Sally has two blue shoes."

The Pile-up:

Yesterday half of my little kids class showed up at my desk about ten minutes before class. One of them, "Brent" (who always has chocolate on his shirt), sat down next to me in my chair. He started to look through my books, trying to find the test that I was about to give them. Then one-by-one all of the students began to lean over my chair. Balance was lost, and the chair went flying backwards with both me and "Brent" in it. The bell rang, and the kids all hopped around me, and then grabbed various parts of my clothing, which kept me in my chair without much body control. I looked up at about seven grinning faces, giggling, and protesting going to class. They all scrambled once one of the Korean teachers yelled something at them in Korean.

Spelling out Gas:

I was giving a spelling test, and called out the word, "fault, number eight is fault." This seemed to be a difficult word for them. They all scrunched up their faces while spelling it. Then after they finished the rest of the test they began to turn their papers in. "Brent" kept frowning at one of the words. He brought his test paper up to me, and with wide eyes pointed at number eight, to which I was brought to tears in laughter, written in fabulously dark and wiggly pencil lines was the word: FART. He asked me, "Teacher, fault?" and I said, "No Brent, that's FART... like bongu (which means fart in Korean)." He had no reaction, and asked again, "Fault?" Then I said, "No, that spells FART." To which I continued laughing. He finally got fault right once I sounded it out to him.

The Trickster:

While playing Word Bingo in my Junior class, one of my students asked if he could be the MC, and if I would play the card. I agreed as I never mind taking a break from being the center of attention. I took over his card, and he started to call out the words with a grin on his face. I was getting excited, as everyone knows most Petros love to play games. He continued to call out words, but none of them were mine. At first I started to get frustrated, and I inadvertently made funny little noises. Then he burst out into laughter with the rest of the class, and I realized that he had memorized his entire card, and was making sure that I didn't get bingo! We all shrieked in laughter. ( On a side note: This isn't the first time that my students have demonstrated that Korean kids have an amazing ability of memorization-- it's sort of freaky).