Hella Cool!

Last week I told my students that if they could find and take a picture of any 'bad' English around Seoul I would bring them a candy bar. So far I haven't had anybody find anything although I've given them lots of hints (Vagetable Tuna anyone?).

That is until yesterday. One of my students very enthusiastically shoved his cellphone in my face mere seconds after I entered the classroom. The picture was of a toy. It said, "Hella Cool." I felt so bad! So I'm giving him 5 points on his next test. Plus I got to expound on some English slang for the class. Not that I should be teaching slang to anyone.

Here are some of last weeks best Student Syntax:

"My aunt lay a baby. The baby was man. . . I am happy no because I had one more bother."

and

"Baby sister is nosebleed burst."

and

"Wow! I can go faster than princess meal."

And for some reason I've had a ton of students writing about "meat parties" lately. Their dad's have all gone forth and purchased mass quantities of meat to serve to their little tykes and they just have to tell me about it. Although I've just finished reading a very convincing, omnivore-converting book, and have never hated on meat this much in my life, it's still getting under my skin! I get it! Meat is tasty. Meat smells good! I'm very happy for you. Stop!!

Here's a random picture of the random one-eyed plant at my favorite table at my favorite coffee place in Hopeyeong:

Also, I made an appointment (well, my co-teacher made the appointment) at the dentist for a cleaning! Yay! I'm equal parts terrified and excited! Nothing's better than that just-left-the-dentist-clean feeling. :) Plus, I'll get to blog about going to the dentist. . .

Wish me luck!