My girls are leaving... :(

So i had 2 little girls this semester in a class by them selves. Their moms were not in the class. Ironically enough, they were cousins, best friends, and really freaking smart! They got on my nerves quite frequintly (i had them twice a week for an hour but they were really cute girls and a lot of fun to play with. They were really good about knowing the story before they even came to class. The kids knowing the story before class has it's ups and downs though. They are able to read along with you which is nice because they are speaking english, but time to time they get really board and stop paying attention all together. These two girls were no different. They tended to get bored and run around the room, beat up on each other, or rip shit off the board, which is why i say that they were a pain in the ass. But on the other side, they were really sweet some days, paid attention, listened to me, and brought lots of gifts :). Well today was their last day at the center. I did not know that they were leaving untill they came to class with "thank you, i love you, i miss you" cards. (which is really the entire point of this blog). They were soo damn cute and it made me a little sad to see them go. One mother explained to me that they were going to english elementary next semester, so a public school in stead of a private. I was a little bummed out. But anyway... the point of the blog was to tell you all that i got cards made from scratch by 2 little adorable pain in the asses and i am goin to miss them.



From Chae-Eun (pronounced just like it looks):



(Front of Card)




(inside the card... my home apparently)





(inside of the card)







From Seon Bin (pronounced Sun-Bin):



(inside on card)


(outside of card)

Happy Pepero Day

Happy Pepero Day! (Korean corporate made Valentines day) One of the biggest companies in Korea is called Lotte. They own and seel everything. They have hotels, apartments, theme parks, convience stores, malls. They sell, candy, all kinds of dairy products, candy ect. They deliver meals to homes. They even have their own holiday in honor of their candy "Pepero." Basically you give everyone you like a breadstick covered in chocolate. They are not very good. I think it is kind of weriod too say "I like you" with something that looks like a turd.

WOW

You guys are busy. You two will do great!!! I hope you two have a good thanksgiving and christmas, sure do miss you guys. We will send pics and food...lol.

Love ya mom

Classes next semester

So we have officially received our class schedule for next semester and things have definatly changed. First of all, we each have about 4 or 5 new classes. This is not a big problem or anything, we will definatly have less down time, which in retrospect, might not be a bad thing. Being a little busier every day of the week instead of just one will make the days fly by. Our center is starting to learn toward just teaching "prime" students, or the ones that are smarter. We have less of the regular classes (the ones where we just sing and dance and read story books) and a couple more of the prime classes (in these classes we focus more on actually teaching them things like spelling, reading, sight words, rhyming, opposites..... the list goes on but you get the point) These classes will be interesting because our first semester was the first time they had done any and Marie got to make them up on a whim. So we get to follow her lead with those classes and I even inherited two new classes that i get to make up the ciriculum for because they are firsts this semester. If all of this seems confusing to you... well to be honest, it is confusing to us too lol. I just recomend reading the blog a few times to try to follow lol.

Our address would help... duh keith!

Ok so dummy me forgot to add an address to the christmas list blog... oops... Packages take about 10-12 days to get here, just and FYI.

Address as follows, and you can put either Attn: Marie Jolliff or Attn: Keith Bryant

JY Books English Center
Attn: (Marie or I)
#Jae I 1 Bldg. 4th floor
#1626-3 Suh Cho-1-Dong Suh Cho Gu
Seoul, South Korea 137-071

:)

Today I had a fist fight break out in my class of three year olds. There are only 3 kids in the class. Its funny because even though they are only 3 years old you can still tell that 2 of the little ones hate the other one. He is loud and disruptive, and his mother has no control. It's really annoying, but it is kinda funny to see how perceptive kids are at such a young age. Anyway, I was checking take home books (yes we give homework to 3 year olds). In this particular class there are so few students and they are so young, that instead of getting in a line in front of me they usually just crowd around my chair. Anyway, while I was checking June's book (he's the annoying one) Yun Jae jumped in front of him to answer one of my questions. June just decided that the best solution was to slug Yun Jae in the face and before I knew it I was playing the bouncer between to pushing, biting and hitting 3 year old boys. It was intense. If it hadn't ended with 3 crying 3 year olds it would have been really funny. As it was June started another fight in the lobby before his mother managed to get him out of the school. He is a really smart kid. He can say duck in three languages, but he can't seem to understand what "no hitting" means. I guess intelligence is all relative.

Christmas List

Here are a few things that Marie and I would like to have sent to us if you are thinking about spreading the christmas spirit :) We are basically just interested in food, becuase any material stuff will eventually have to be sent home later anyway (pain in the butt).
*Canned soup: tomato, cream of chicken/mushroom/broccoli
*Canned beans: black/green/lima
Basically any vegetable except corn or poatoes
Poptarts
Granola bars (Sunbelt makes really stellar Coconut bars :)
Airborne
Stove Top stuffing
mac and cheese
cookie mix
New Orleans/ southern rice mixes
brownie mix
muffin mix
warm socks
lotion
taco seasoning
cheese: parmesan/ velveta/ or anything else that would make it here
ranch dressing
tortillas
Goobers peanut butter and grape jelly

Anyway, if you are thinking about sending us something for Christmas, these are the things that we can't get and would really enjoy for the holidays :)