Me: "Oh, really?"
< Interjection: 은솔 (Belle), lived overseas for a total of 10 years - New Zealand and California - and speaks near fluently. >
은솔 (Belle): "Yeah. It's kind of fun."
Me: "Who with? Mary?" (Mary is her friend who is in her class and lived overseas as well.)
은솔 (Belle): "No, with that boy who sits next to me in my homeroom class. You talked to him this morning."
Me: (thinking) "Oh, you mean 재현 (Jae-Hyun)? That's great! Who started that?"
은솔 (Belle): "He did - earlier this week he asked me if we could speak in English with each other so he could practice."
I love that. That short dialogue pretty much made my day. Belle and Jae-Hyun are two of my favorite students. Jae-Hyun was one of the boys who helped me on the bus in my previous post. Well, in all honesty, 2-4 in general is pretty much composed of most of my favorite students. I love the fact that they're taking it into their own hands, and trying to improve their abilities outside of class.
Continuing that thought ... towards the end of class, another one of my favorite students managed to grab my full and undivided attention when he began talking to me about how he wishes his English ability was as high as other students in the class, but because it is not he is only able to use simple words and string together uncomplicated thoughts. I spent a good five or ten minutes talking with 영원 (Young-Won) about his English ability and how it can be improved. He's a solid kid. He came to the conclusion that in order to improve his ability, he should study in the US or Canada or Austrailia or another country. I told him that if that wasn't possible, he could always just come and find me and we could talk.
After the bell rang and I finished talking with Young-Won, another student came up to me - he wants me to call him Visual. We had basically the same conversation as the one between myself and Young-Won, though Visual used Young-Won as an example of better English while Young-Won used Belle.
They're all solid kids. I'm really lucky to have them. 2-4 and 2-2 make my Tuesdays so ... easy. =)
I'm already halfway done with my week. Teaching, that is. Yesterday, I had my two sections of 2-1, and today I had two sections of 2-4 and 2-2. Tomorrow morning, I will have my two sections of 2-3 and 2-2 again ... and then I'm done with classes for the week. I still have to be at work tomorrow afternoon and Thursday, but because of the university entrance exam on Thursday, we're not holding classes.
Good luck to all of the third year students in Korea (and those who are retaking the exam for other reasons)!!!
Oh, and congratulations Da-Eun on being accepted to Anyang Foreign Language High School - I knew you would do it!
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