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| I know, I know. We look more Asian every day. |
- Carson got accepted to the University of Arizona! He'll be getting a masters degree in public health management and policy. Wahoo!
- I had a student today tell me, "Teacher, your hair is very noisy today." Whatever that means
- I have a new class that just started this week. It's just two little boys who are about 5 years old. They speak like ten words of English, and they're so cute. Obviously, I don't speak Korean so we don't communicate very well. But yesterday we just sang songs, said "hi" over and over, shared a snack, and I gave them about 100 high fives.
- We had a meeting the other night about Korean culture. The gist of it was that we need to study the whole time and not play games. When we play games for the last 5 minutes of class, some kids tell their moms that all they did was play games the whole time, and it makes the parents upset. Our director told us that his 13 year old daughter goes to school at 8:10 every morning and goes to bed at one or two in the morning. And she's studying or going to class the whole time. He doesn't enjoy seeing her to do that, but that's just the way it is. If you don't go to a good college, you won't get a good job. That is Korean culture. I had a middle school student tell me that she doesn't ever do things with her friends because her dad tells her, "Study now. Play later." It's a really common philosophy over here.
- Oh yeah, and we've become less picky-eaters. We eat tofu, kimchi, sprouts and weird vegetables that we don't know the English name for, and Carson even eats the fish cake patties!
