Jawoon Elementary School

I have never seen kids SO excited about "foreigners". When we were walking up and down the hall for our school tour the kids were waving, screaming (HI-HI-HI), getting out of their seats to come say hi to us and be next to us! It was so amazing! Monday I got to class, I love my students SO much! I have 12 students in my class, here are their English names they were given:
Jack, Irene, Jenny 1, Jenny 2, Christina, Alice, Brian, Michael, Anna, Hue, Jae, and Esther. So funny that those were some of the names they were given. All students are 11-12 years old which is 4-5 grade here for them! They all know English (some better than others)

The first day they asked me questions like, do you have a boyfriend? are you married? the usual for children. There is another English teacher in my class his name is Meachum. Pronounced- me- chum. He is 6'6, wears size 15 shoe, very skinny, and SO funny! The kids are trying to hook us up because we are both single...its pretty funny!

In the schools the kids clean! Slave labor ....bahahaha! JK...But really, on Monday it was the regular schools last day of school, students had gloves on, mops, cleaning supplies and everything! We were told that they clean their schools! I really like that idea! The kids don’t wear shoes inside the classroom so in all of the rooms you will see most kids have indoor shoes which they only wear inside a room or they have socks or they go bare foot. I went to the Lotte Mart this weekend and picked up a pair of hello kitty slippers! All the girls love them!
It was so funny because during the game time we were playing this game called, “Do you love your neighbor?” everyone is sitting in a chair and one person is in the middle asking that question. Well I started off in the middle- the kids volunteered me! The first kid I go to I said, “Do you love your neighbor? He said,” No!” So I said, “Then who do you love?” and the point of this game is to say something like people with socks on, and then all the people with socks on have to get up and move to another seat. The person in the middle has to try to get a seat. Whoever doesn’t get a seat is not the one in the middle. Well this kid, his name is Brain. Total jokester- smart kid! His response was, “People with black face.” (as he motions his hand in a circle right infront of his face! LOL! I could not stop laughing! There was only one black person in the room and that was Meachum! It was absolutely hilarious! Even Meach was laughing! These kids are great! I love teaching them! They are so well behaved and love to learn! Learning to them is like a fun activity! Today Brian asked me if I have had Soju, beer, wine…ect. I don’t know how he knows about all the alcoholic beverages. Then he goes well I have had 4 beers already this week! I was like oh yeah? You aren’t even old enough to drink! He laughs and says, “ROOT BEERS!” I am telling you, these kids are awesome! I look forward to seeing their faces each day!
Oh and one of the summer camp rules is to punctual. And let me tell you, every kid was their before 9 am …actually when I got there at 8:40am, there were already 4 kids there in their seats!  It makes me smile!
Oh and let me tell you about the bathroom! I had to go to the bathroom so I said hey, I will be right back…so I walk down the hall, and there are student bathrooms and then there are teacher bathrooms. So I walk in, open the stall door only to find that the toilet is on the ground! YEP! Had to pop a squat! I was tripping out! I walk back in the room and go, “Judit, Sky…did you go to the bathroom yet?!” They were like NO, why? They couldn’t believe it either! All the stalls in the whole school are like that! In class Brian was asking me where in the world I have traveled! I was telling, and then I told him about the weird toilets here, and how in Mexico they don’t flush their paper down. He said, “Oh yeah, you ever been to China? Well I have and they have toilets on the ground- with NO WALLS!” lol! I love it here! These kids are incredible!