Korean moments

There is this older korean woman who cleans the halls and bathrooms everyday and she always gets sooo excited when she sees me walking down the hall. I think it took her a solid 6 months to realize I don't speak fluent Korean and can only have slow conversations cause she'd ramble off to me in Korean everyday and I would just smile and wave. Well she must have got her wires crossed when asking someone how to say Hello to someone in English cause now every single day when I see her she smiles huge and says "Bye, Bye!" and waves. Haha, it's awesome.

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In class I was teaching yet another weird thing in the Korean English book (i'm not really sure who writes these things cause it doesn't make sense.)

There was one picture of a dog literally running into the wall and even showed blood next to it. It's a cartoon picture but looked gross and violent, anyways one student raised his hand and asked, 

"teacher, dog commit suicide?"

After composing myself after I burst out laughing, I actually had to say "good question, I have no idea."

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I rarely teach class just by myself, there is always a Korean co-teacher to translate things to the students if needed or to discipline. Well sometimes they have meetings or emergencies and they can't be in the class, and to tell you the truth I sometimes prefer it. The students are a lot more relaxed with me and are more talkative knowing they won't get yelled at or disciplined really if they behave and participate for the most part.

Well anyways this particular day I was teaching 3rd grade (so it's 9th grade) and after I finished teaching them an English lesson we had some time left over so I was just hanging out and talking to a few of them. They started to get pretty loud and I didn't want the other teachers to come in so some of the boys taught me how to say "be quiet" and "sit down" in Korean. The other students were talking while they taught me this so I went  up to the front of the room and said out loud what I had just learned, (hoping they didn't just teach me bad words in Korean) and the room erupted in cheers and clapping and "good job teacher!" hahahaha, I died laughing, and they actually listened. They were just as proud of me learning simple Korean words as I am when they even say "Hello" in English to me. I forget we are both teaching each other...I'm really g