Week two of teaching, which is quite the experience, to put it mildly. I never knew that an “I’m fine, thank you” in response to “How are you doing today” would give me such a thrill. So next week I start them on Cormac McCarthy; I think they’re ready.
The students all know that Rule No. 1 is No Korean, but they don’t follow it very well. One boy, Timmy, incessantly calls his classmates out on breaking the rule: “Teechah, teechah! Sally! Kordean! Teechah! Kordean!” But while he isn't tattling, he is speaking Korean himself. So yesterday he had fun with all of this native tongue monitoring until he spoke "Kordean" one time too many and spent the next 5 minutes in the hallway, gloomy and teary-eyed, watching enviously his classmates learn the preposition “under.” Tomorrow's lesson is on hypocrisy and irony.
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