Recent Weeks

Okay here goes a brief, bullet pointed post:

• My rugby team has started playing in a touch league on the weekends pre-practice or games for the club... read more here: https://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2007/05/02/200705020021.asp
• Today in the middle of class, a bunch of kids are telling me things.. sorta all at once because they were excited, and this little boy blurts out "Sometimes I touch my grandma here!" (and points at his nipple)... umm... okay? What do you say in that situation?
• Today a little boy (he's about 5 or 6) came in halfway through class, then I turn around and he's run out and is crying in his mom's arms. Then his mom tells me that he is scared of me because he was late and that is why he was crying... Note to self: be nicer to that class (I'll admit they get on my nerves so I'm a little mean to them.. the rest of the kids like me though)
• Another note to self: don't frequent stores or banks around the school when it lets out - I went to the bank today after work and was stopped by a kid's parents who wanted to ask me how their son was doing. Lovely conversation, always! It's the one thing I have managed to avoid before now, as many parents don't speak English...
• I've become like a rock star at school, not sure exactly why. And it seems the amount that kids like me is inversely related(is that the right word??) to how mean I am in class. The classes where I'm rather stern, I see the kids afterwards and they come running yelling "Hilary Teacher!" and give me cookies and stuff... Also, a lot of other little kids come running and calling my name all the time too and I have no idea who they are...
• One little girl, I guess she's 5 or 6 as well, always goes to the bathroom with the door open. And by some fluke I always walk into the bathroom when she's on the toilet with her pants down, walking out of the washroom with her pants down or in some other stage of undress. And she is the most talkative girl. So I walk in the bathroom, and I hear this little voice, "What's your name?" And turn around and see her with her pants around her ankles. So I awkwardly answer, "Hilary Teacher." And she goes "Oh beautiful name. Is it your Korean name?" etc. etc. etc. This has happened three times now.. It's the strangest thing - I have a bathroom stalker!

And that's all for now!