another year older...

can i have them for my birthday?:

teary eyes

so i made my first boy cry yesterday. i felt really bad because usually he's very playful and nonchalant about everything but he had that guilty face so i thought he took the other boy's eraser. so i told him he'd better not be lying. then he started crying when we found it under the other boy's book he just didn't feel it. i was like omg...damn it. and i told the little boy i was sorry and wrote in the notes for him in the book so he would stop crying. gawwdddd that was awful i can't deal with tears. oh and the other boy was crying (not my fault) because his mom gave him a perm and he hates it (i mean who gives their LITTLE BOY A PERM?!?!) and so he kept his hood on because he was embarrassed. this girl pulled it off and he started crying. so first him and then after was the one i made cry. *sigh* and then i told the class no more crying today!!! it made me all stressed out. at least i had a reading class after with older kids. they're less likely to cry which is great because i don't know how to deal with crying. it makes me uncomfortable.

the good news was that the boy that was a brat last week was an angel after his mom probably scolded him. he read with us and practiced his words. i was like omg...what a change. so yes...the stupid daily rantings of a new teacher. it's actually weird to say i'm a teacher. most of the time i feel like i'm just playing with them. :P

seoul trip #2

national treasure #1 by seoul city hall
an antique market
used to be a city gate, now it's the national treasure #1 in seoul

my first week

i actually found teaching to be quite enjoyable. i'm sure some of the kids hate me since i make them say the same words over and over and over and over again until it's lost all meaning and sounds but in the end they will thank me because they won't sound like fobs when they talk. actually it's kind of fun because i'm trying to think of all the words that i hate when fobs say it and i'm correcting them so that these kids will never sound like they lived in another country. they won't have a weird accent or anything. my reading classes are amazing. they're such smart and cute kids. i have a lot of fun with the beginners too. they're very tiny and they don't understand half of what i say. i tried to make it fun for them though with various ways. sometimes the principal comes over because we're always giggling in class. my kids love to giggle. i have no idea why! i'm not that funny :P however i do like to do stupid stuff to make them laugh. it really is just trying to find the most creative way for them to learn while still enjoying their hour or hour and a half they are required to stay with me.

all in all i think it was a great first week. my last class today was a bit on the bad side but they were ok. they didn't understand as much as my others and they aren't beginner beginners. there is one boy in my science class. omg he's the cutest little boy i've ever seen!!! when he wears his vest he hides half his face in it. he's smaller than everyone else and oh so cute. there's actually another little boy in my first beginner class that is adorable too. i just want to pinch his cheeks and make him laugh. haha i guess i never thought i would enjoy it as much as i do. hopefully next week will go just as well as this week went. we'll have to see though.

i got a cell phone today. i put the number up on the side contact info. maybe in time i can get some pictures of my class up.

Happy New Year!