Alive museum

There was another LCI field trip last week. Which means...pictures!! ...and, uh, pictures!!! and then maybe some play time but probably not. I was kind of surprised they scheduled it because the whole thing is in Korean. But when we got their I think I figured it out when we got there: cardboard head cutouts!! What could make cuter pictures than that?

D.Y.

Julie

Another winner, D.S.




This is Brian. He isn't actually in my class. He's in Shannon's. He's kind of
unbelievable and this painting is emblematic of how he dresses. Everyday his outfits
involve some amount of sequins, sparkles, rhinestone or all three.
On the rare day when he doesn't wear any of these things it's because he's wearing
animal prints. On extra special days he's wearing animal prints and sparkles.

Picture day at LCI

**Note: I officially hate my camera and can't wait until I have a chance to buy a new one. For some reason my camera has been washing out all shots that I've been taking, regardless of the lighting. So these picture day pics are kind of bad. Sorry

This Friday was picture day at LCI for all of the 7 year olds. This is not a ramshackle operation. There were 2 professional photographers at the school all day. The kids get decked out for this too. Here are some of my favorite outfits.


Daniel S. Ginger & Julie


Gus Robin

I love Robin's tiny tie, especially because it clips together in the back.

Honorable mentions include Eric, who is wearing a Canadian tux in the background of Gus' photo.

But of course the supreme sartorial victor was my little space cadet: Daniel S.!!


Daniel S.

His mom put him in a little tuxedo!! I love it.


So, anyway, picture day here is no joke. It took 2.5 hours. We started on the roof where we have a little garden. the photographer had them all do little poses at different places on the roof top. Then we went to the Big Room where they had portraits wearing a cap and gown. Severl were taken of each child because they wanted to have a range of facial expressions I guess. Then we moved up to the library where we all gathered around a book that I had to pretend to read. The photographer then came up and stated posing the children all around me, as we all tried to read one book.

Finally, we had the classroom shots, group and individual shots with teacher. I got to leave 5 minutes after the lunch bell rang. My kids told me later that the classroom pictures continued through most of lunch.


In other news, DJ Shadow came to Hongdae on Friday so we went!! Good times were had by all. AND in order to get into the women's restroom you had to go through the laser jail!

Learn all about Pepero Day here!

In other news, my birthday was really nice. Some other teachers and I went out for dinner and hookah. It has been a bit of a long dragged out affair because of the time difference at home and the fact that I didn't really tell anyone except for my kids that it was my birthday. So, Ffriday night it is!

Great things

Well, it has been a pretty good week.  Halloween last Friday was a lot of fun.  I am the zombie in the front row with the bloody t-shirt.  Joel was a theater major in college and he took a make-up class.  Needless to say, we looked great.  In my class of 11 I had 5 princesses (every girl), 2 power rangers and a pirate (complete with a spare moustache in case his were to fall off).  The best part about the power rangers is that they all had little foam 8-packs and biceps.

Claire is a princess!!  (Oh, but so is Julie and Vicky and Yuna and Ginger)

Nooo!!  Teacher!!!!  We don't want to read!!

In more recent news (11/7) a third-year Kinder had a birthday party on Friday.  Uh, this wasn't just any party though.  His mom ordered 15 large Pizza Hut pizzas and chicken nuggets and potato wedges AND a small crate of clementines.  Oh, there was also a giant cake in a big pink box.

This is obviously only 3 pizzas.  The rest are piled on Shannon's desk. 

Here's the actual cake.  There were also 7 matchbox cars on it.  Oh, did I mention that this kid's dad bought a yellow Lambourghini last week?  Because he did.  (Patrick's hand is in there for scale)

Not too much going on

Not too much going on over here. Halloween is tomorrow so my little kids are already really excited.

Some choice quotes from the past few weeks.

from a student essay: "I want a cell phone that is new, expensive and has video conferencing."

from a Kinder's journal: "I am going to the Grandma's house."

a conversation between another teacher (American) and my team leader (Korean):

Teacher: Listen to what one of my students wrote " Australians are too tall." I love this sentence.
Team leader: What's the matter with that? It's true.

Apparently this is how you move in the land of high-rises. Later in the day I saw another one that was getting stuff from the 20th floor of a building.

My favorite Egrish is that which is grammatically correct but still seems a little off.

I am amazing

Well, I am amazing. My open class for the parent teacher conference went really well. I think it's because I gave my little kids an amazing pep talk before their moms came in. Julie P. motivational speaker strikes again!

Today (the day after the PTC) Daniel S.'s mom brought me a cake!! I came down for lunch and had this beautifully wrapped package on my desk!




In other news, the food in cafeteria continues to be delicious because a few other teachers still have PTCs.

More on my Kinders

This is Daniel S. He's kind of my favorite. He's not that good at English and he gets really sweaty any time he exerts himself. He's great because he's a complete space cadet. He's also significantly smaller than every other student in the class. ...And he wears the same robot sweatshirt everyday.








On Wednesday mornings my little kids have playroom. LCI has a Chuck E. Cheese-type play place on the second floor. Upon entering the playroom the little kids start running and screaming and pretty much don't stop for 3 minutes. Fortunately, the glass that separates me from them is kind of thick.