Kidisms

Cliche, yes. But kids say the FUNNIEST things.

Sometimes I find the kids way more amusing than I think they realize I do.

Today at lunch, I was sitting at a table by myself. I serve the kids lunch and there are only three small tables in the classroom - since I have a big tray of food, I wanted to sit away from them so they didn't knock anything over. One girl remarks, "Teacher is sitting alone," and this little 6 year old boy looks at me with sympathy and says "Don't worry Teacher, you can be my friend." This is the same little boy that just proclaimed that he was going to marry his mother. And who earlier sang "A man and a woman sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Hilary Teacher in the baby carriage. Then the baby carriage breaks because she's too heavy." HAHAHA.

This is the boy that also exclaimed loudly when the girls sang "Kyle and Evan sitting in a tree....etc." that "Boys and boys don't kiss."

Another little girl standing up was just below chest height on me. She looked up at my chest and exclaimed "Woooah!!" (Korean women are quite flat-chested for the most part), then "Teacher, baby in there??" (tapping my chest).

Anyways, as you may guess - I definitely am not minding teaching as much as I thought I would. The pay is excellent, the days go by fast, and I can't complain that the work is too hard. Aside from having to have lots of energy and patience, I get most of my material provided for me. Except today when I was trying to teach grammar and came across some grammatical rule about past participles that I was supposed to help the kids fill in the blanks on....I don't even know what a past participle is!! We skipped that one!