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May

Teacher’s Day — 2009

Today is Teacher’s Day in Korea. I’m touched by the generosity of my students and their parents. It was such a treat to have kids come up, give me gifts and hugs, and tell me how much they appreciate what I do. There are good days and bad days in teaching, as in every profession. Today was definitely a good day, and not just because of the gifts. And those good days really do make up for the bad days.

Emma from Picasso got me a bottle of perfume
Mel from Nobel gave me a homemade muffin
Lucy from Einstein gave me some lip gloss
Lina from Dewey gave the teachers cookies
Denny from Newton gave me an award ribbon
Fred from Newton gave me ginsing slices
Lola from Einstein gave me a note and some rice cakes
Rocky from Picasso gave the teachers pizza and soda
Penny from Newton gave me a hair clip
Warren from A3 gave me a pen
James from A1 gave me some jam
Eric from A1 gave me a scarf
Ellie from A1 gave me sunblock
Nick from D1 gave me flowers
Rose from D4 gave me soap
Alex from B2 gave me soap
Sally from D3 gave me lotion
Julie from D4 gave me socks and a note written on a balloon
Flora from D3 gave me chocolate

I’m so blessed to have wonderful students. They all have their quirks and problem days. But for the most part, they are good kids.

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May

Happy Children’s Day!

I’d like to wish all my current and former students a very Happy Children’s Day! I hope you had a great day off from school.

Anne and Anna

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Apr

Sue’s Wedding

Sue got married yesterday. Unlike the previous weddings I attended, this one was in a church. It was a beautiful service. Sue’s husband sang a love song to her during the wedding. I wish her and her husband the best of luck for the future. They’ll be honeymooning in Saipan.

: Sue and her new hubby

: Sue and her mom

: The parents and the new couple

: Check out the little one with the Nike’s and his hanbak.

: The whole family

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Mar

Happy White Day

It’s White Day today. The streets of Samsondong were crazy packed with couples being lovey dovey. Oh wait, let me digress a bit.

What is White Day? Another wonderful Korean Hallmark holiday of course. White Day falls on March 14th, a month after Valentines Day. The tradition on Valentines Day is for the women to give candy and gifts to the men. It’s just the opposite on White Day.

So back to Samsondong. I had to go to Kidari today to pick up a workbook for my D1 class . Kidari is right across the street from Lotte Hotel. There are quite a few little restaurants in that area, including the one I went to lunch at. The cab driver almost hit about 12 cars on the drive down to Samsondong. Ugh. I hate cabs in Korea. This one section of Samsondong has a bunch of very narrow streets that aren’t really fit for automobile traffic. So many people. Not just people. Couples in Love. Disgusting. I was glad to get done what I needed to get done so I could get the heck out of that madness. On the plus side, lunch was good. Spicy chicken and rice. I’ll have to find out what it was called because I just can’t remember.

I got a nice little haul of candy from students yesterday. I’ll probably end up giving most of it away to kids who come in and chat with me. I like to reinforce the whole speaking English thing. Korean Hallmark holidays are good for building up stashes of candy and treats for that.

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Feb

Congrats!

Congratulations to our 7 year old classes. They graduated today. I was there for the November Class ceremony because I was their charge teacher. I have to admit, I cried. I had two thirds of those kids since I started teaching at Little Campus. I’ve seen them come so far, so fast. Most of them are moving on up to the A and B classes in the afternoon.

I do have pictures, but they’re not downloaded off my camera yet. Tonight’s a night for playing with the kitty (now named Ivory) and working on my homework.

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