Of the many times I've been to Florida, or other such sunny family destinations, I've seen a lot of paraphanalia decorated with the phrase, "(person) went to (place) and all I got was this stupid (thing)". I always thought these things were rather stupid and much preferred silly sea shell figurines with wobbly eyes that had something equally as stupid prhase on it like "Florida" or "Gulf Shores" (I was a really cool kid if you didn't know)...
Anyway, two of my students (Cathy and Betty) are cousins and Betty's father just returned from a business trip to Malaysia. Yesterday, they were so excited as they told me he got each of them gifts. How cool is that? To get something from a far off land?? I remember how I always got excited when my parents went on a trip and brought me back some goodies.
So today, Cathy walked into class with a big smile on her face and proudly held up her new gift...a protractor!! Now, if my parents or relative went away to another country and brought me back a protractor...I would be less than enthused and probably wouldn't even be able to fake my excitement very well. I don't really consider myself an ungrateful person...but a protractor??? I guess this shows that Korean children are driven so hard academically that they receive gifts from other countries to keep them excelling in their studies...poor babies.
I keep getting confused cause all of your kids have these english names. I keep thinking thoughts like who the f is cathy? I keep expecting your stories to involve korean names like "Sang Hoon Lee went to Malaysia and brought his daughter, JuShin Kim a protractor. She was so excited and showed it to all her friends, such as EunJun and Sun Min."
ReplyDeleteI don't know where that came from.