74) A Fond Farewell

Today was Adam’s last day at our school. Him and I were the only two full time foreign teachers at the school (while I have been here). I’m sad to see him go, as we have hung out often in the last couple months, and he has made my work days go by fast and fun. All around he is just a great guy- and all the kids loved him. I will certainly miss his generosity, friendship and great attitude! The last two days I have been having the kids in my classes make him cards (most of them have had Adam as a teacher). Some of the older kids seemed pretty sad, and wrote him some really great notes and cards.

There was a sort of sad and slightly weird atmosphere in the school today. Generally the some of the kids were in a weird mood today. I don’t know if it was because of Adam’s leaving or what, but there were a couple weird and funny comments in three of my classes today. The first came from an incredible class that Adam and I share. The kids just got out of kindergarten last month and can carry on full conversations and read very well. Pretty impressive considering this is the third language for some of them. Anyways, I was bent over correcting one of the kid’s homework when one of the girls started tapping me on the butt trying to get my attention. One of the other girls in the class yells out “Kyle… she’s touching the bum!”
The second one came from a pretty fun class of mine while rehearsing a conversation/speech. The line was “Oh really? What did you do, Song?” but it came out as “Oh really? I want to do you, Song!” The kids had no idea the meaning it had to me, but they laughed just as hard as I did.
And the last came in a class that has a couple troublemakers. I really try to get this class to only speak in English, and the good students really but out a good effort at it. One of the girls had enough of one of the boys speaking in Korean, and told him “Shut up! Shut up the mouth!”