A going away party for Amy

i'm very sorry to say meaghan missed meeting one of my favorite kids by two weeks.



Amy from my Gentle class left for Canada last week, so she came in the day before her flight to say goodbye to her classmates and friends, and feed them a really, REALLY pink 'Hello Kitty' cake. it tasted like plastic strawberries dipped in butter. literally. that is a perfect description.




Alice is a goofball. she is the smartest kid in class, so she often is bored, and she remedies that by making her on fun all the time. she loves to pretend. she often loves to pretend to hate me. yes, i know. im giving you all a green light to slip in some jokes there, but its true. she pretends to be mad over obviously made up situations, and throws fake tantrums like the one above. everyone including me get a kick out of it.




i will miss squeezing Amy's cheeks. i dont know when but i picked up the habit of squeezing kids cheeks from meaghan. she does it all the time and i thought she was a big weirdo, but it is a fun thing to do. its funny to see the looks on their faces when you do it, and Amy would always give me this deadpan expression with me squeezing the mess outta her face. it was priceless.



i got this jelly-lollipop as a going away present. do you notice the 'cute' theme yet?





an-yong!~~

More more more pictures being added into what is now becoming a picture blog...

Ok, i have two friends and one student leaving this week. My good friend Kirk, pictured here, is leaving this week and going back to his house in Canada, which he will stay at for about a month before going to his other home in Hawaii. unacceptable. thats ok, i have a questionable picture of him. this was his going away party even though he's here for 5 more days.



There it is. :)




COOKING DAY!! YAY!! No-real-work-day!
all we did was make kimbap with seaweed and rice paper. and then we colored.














And then after cooking, we get to celebrate Kelly and June's birthdays which are both on the same day, Sunday!! YAY!! I get to do even less!!




James was cracking me up because this was our science class where we make random things, and this was just a demonstration in animation. there are a bunch of pictures of frogs inside, so when you spin it it looks like it is jumping up and down. all the kids liked it, but james sat there for about 10 minutes just spinning it one time and dying of hysterical laughter, just to compose himself enough to do it all over again. i thought it was hilarious that he could get so much entertainment out of so little, but he was obviously loving it!



It was Amy's last day before moving to Canada with her family. That's the first person who is leaving this week out of the three, as she leaves monday. She is a very interesting kid who always made me laugh because she is so weird. but not gross weird, she just had an extremely interesting personality. so she will be greatly missed.



and the answer is: no. she cant see from under the rabbit's decapitated head.

Picture Update!!!

With that aside, i forgot to upload the pictures i took of the Halloween costume day we had at school!!









That's enough of that. Time for some other misc. pictures!












Kelly got a haircut!! She is even more adorable now
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Now for the not so cute. This is my friend Phil who is a kyopo (korean word for a Korean person born and raised in the U.S. ) This is him after becoming heavily intoxicated. Interesting side note about him: when he gets drunk his eyes squint more and more when he smiles.

His eyes are actually closed here, and i'm not trying to make any racist jokes here. this is just his "I'm really drunk" face. he's a clown, but a funny one.