#teaching anecdotes

[luckycheesefoodie321]

Yo teaching is some tough sh*t but my last day of placement, all the kids just suddenly got real cute and sweet saying goodbye and giving me little cards and it was real cute and they were year 6’s

Gave me hugs and sh*t, real gotdang adorable

[notonmyvisa]

I had the most awkward thing said to me today

This new mom shows up for a demo class with her daughter. Now her child is super shy and that's something I'm already used to.

Then her mom looks at me and starts talking like "My daughter really loves Africa and African things and African language and African blah blah blah"

I had to tell her I'm not from Africa then she keeps going asking if I know anything about Africa and I'm like "N...not beyond what I was taught in school which wasn't much." It wasn't until I said I'm from America that she chilled out and I had to say it twice.

My temp co teacher asked the mom if she knew Afrikaans but the mom was like no.

Why do all the weird shit gotta happen to me? I can't have a normal experience here huh?

[blueberry-cheese-pizza]

I was teaching a student some verbs and used Sherlock in one of the questions… When I asked him if he knew who Sherlock was, he said, "Oh yeah, I heard of him. Sherlock Homeless, right?"😂Now he just keeps repeating the name over and over despite me telling him it's not that.

[blueberry-cheese-pizza]

I'm so used to seeing my students on zoom: it made them appear at the same height like me... But then when I meet them face to face...

[notonmyvisa]

Cute kid moments

I have so many new cute babies at work now and I am basically squealing everyday because of them.

One of my baby girls today was learning the letter Tt with her class. I started singing Twice's TT (ya know the bop?) and she kept singing 🎶Tell me won't you be my babyyyy🎶 I got it on video and I'm cry.

Same baby girl one day gestured for me to come close to her and she gave me a kiss on the cheek. Have I mentiones how much I love this baby girl?

Another student has recently started calling me "mommy" in both English and Korean. Her older brother who also goes to our academy hates it cause I just accepted it and call him my son. He goes "Noooooo son" now most of the time when I see him lol

Our longest running kid has gotten so much better with his English that while he doesn't know how to say everything, he has been translating to the other kids in class with him that don't completely understand what I said. And it tends to be stuff higher than his own speaking level. His understanding. My hort.

One of our older girls runs to give me a hug every time she sees me.

Our morning kids have gotten so close with each other, that the one boy has developed a serious crush on the girl. He follows her around so much. I'm just glad she doesn't let him get away with anything.

The same morning girl said once "Don't trust men!" to all the female teachers.

All my kids have been in love with this jellyfish song from Super Simple Songs youtube channel and they dance to it when they get tired.

With that being said, I have been at this school 7 months with no major issues and my kids are my life.