December 2011
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^ The amount of time I just spent on the phone with one of my students.
“Liz… I am very happy to call you. Tomorrow I will call again.”
Love it love it love it.
:)
Piano Recital Friday
Yesterday was quite the busy day.
I passed out pen pal Christmas letters to the 300+ students in the program… I had a 30 minute block of time after lunch when everyone would be free. I had their letters alphabetized and arranged by classes in my big pen pal double cabinets. I made the girls line up, and one by one I passed out letters… The line was all the way out the door, down...
Because American kids are funny, too.
These are a few excerpts from the American Christmas cards sent to my girls. They either made me laugh out loud, horrified me, or just made me giggle:
“Hello, I got your letter. You do English good.”
“Merry Christmas. I hope you get better at grammer.”
(Using their lingo back to them:)
“I heard you saw a picture of my face.”
(Responding to an inquiry about their knowledge of...
Christmas Party: KKOOM style
This weekend I went to Gumi for a Christmas party at an orphanage. KKOOM, which in Korean means “Dream,” stands for Korean Kids and Orphanage Outreach Mission, and is a nonprofit that cares for orphans throughout South Korea.
It was founded by a 2004 ETA. Her story is really insipiring- besides this incredible non-profit that she’s created, she came to Korea knowing no Korean,...
N Korea furious at South's Christmas lights plan →
Merry Christmas, everybody!
jennargibson:
North Korea has warned South Korea of “unexpected consequences” if it lights up a Christmas tree-shaped tower near their tense border.
Four feet.
Some of my students rushed into my classroom during their break, pen pal letter in hand.
“TEACHER!” they said, freaking out. “My pen pal!!!”
“What? What??” I asked, concerned.
“Does he…??” - they started to put their feet together, counting one, two, three, four feet.
“Huh?” I said.
They thrust the letter their American pen pal...
Christmas Shopping
Today, Lisa, Lauren, and I went shopping around downtown for Christmas presents. Next weekend, the three of us plus around 20 other volunteers are going to Gumi for a Christmas party at an orphanage (more details on that later), and we were all given three children who we need to shop for.
It was a great day spent shopping for others and buying cute, girly things. I have a 7 year old, 13 year...
