Did I mention...

that I now love that student from EC that I had to take to the counter that I talked about the end of October? I'm not sure whether it's due to the fact that he is so excited when I come to class, that he sometimes hugs me before or after class, that he takes great pleasure in beating me at rock, paper, scissors, or that he really participates well in class(and is learning a lot!). Ah...teaching. :D

ESL Studentisms

ESL Studentisms- funny English phrases spoken by students learning English as a second language.

It was so funny tonight. I have a student in my most basic class. His name is Matt and he's about 8 years old. I've taught them all how to respond to the question, "how are you?" I wrote it on the whiteboard and after several days of repeating it together, they have it down. I say "how are you" and they respond with "fine, thank you, how are you?" Most of them understand it but apparently I still need to do additional explaining to some.

I was standing by the water cooler getting a drink at the same time as Matt had come out of his classroom, where they wait for class to start, to get a drink. He looked up at me for a second and then says to me, "I'm fine, thank you, how are you?" It was so hilarious I had to keep from laughing and just smiled and responded with, "I'm good, thank you!" The kids are cute.

Matt is also the student that finds the hair on my chin fascinating and often reaches out to try to rub my chin if I'm leaning over a book helping them with their work. Fun, fun.

Pepero Day!!

I've been waiting for Pepero Day for so long and it finally arrived!

It's been a good week since my last post, though it's gotten much cooler and I caught a cold. I also did some shopping over the weekend, including buying myself a new camera! I've been needing one since my last one stopped working. I decided on an ultra portable Sony Cybershot DSC-T77. It's 10.1 megapixels and the back is a full touch screen. And the best part? It's green! lol

Church went well and I had fun hanging out, playing soccer, and talking with friends. And now back to Pepero Day.

Pepero Day is a day invented by the makers of Pepero, a chocolate covered stick that comes in several different varieties, that is similar in some ways to Valentines Day. It's a time to buy chocolates for people you care about or just friends and, of course, students. It always takes place on November 11th. Why, you may ask? Because November 11th resembles the Pepero sticks(11/11). No, seriously. lol

So I bought a large container and several boxes to give out to students today in each class. It was so much fun. There were students walking around everywhere with Pepero sticks and I got several boxes and sticks from students as gifts. I was also handing out sticks left and right. Needless to say, I had a lot of chocolate tonight and still have several boxes that I brought home. I took a couple of pictures of the teacher's room and my desk:

The teacher's room from the door. The desk closest is JoAnne's(the Korean English teacher), then mine, Cassie's(the Australian English teacher) and then Xirong's(the Korean Chinese teacher, Xirong is her Chinese name) on the right.
From my desk. The table is where we have teacher's meetings and eat together if we have a meal.
My desk! It was a little messy when I took the picture, with books and my SP-A class folder sitting out...among other things. The bag next to the monitor is where I keep my candy. hehe
And my collection of various kinds of Pepero!