My Students are Clever Little Boogers

Sorry (or maybe not?) for the unrelated pictures from our last two potlucks - t*party and bacon - wowza, can my friends cook!

Next Tuesday is English Festival (there are posters plastered around school with Santa and snow scenes saying "English Festival: Coming Soon!" ... awesome!) and the English department is in the middle of preparations.  Here's a rundown of the day's events:

• English Speech Contest
• English Business Play Contest (original plays written by our first graders whose only requirement was to use business English dialogue that we have worked on over the course of the school year)
• English Song Contest
• Line Dancing (!!!)
• Various English Relay Games

Today, I was editing some of the English speeches by some first graders and I came across some clever little gems that I just had to share:

You may not know me because we are in different classes, but I am famous in class 3 - it is not a lie! As you know, I'm a cool class president who goes hiking every morning, just like everyone who goes to this school.  For the moment, I want to introduce my family who play a big role in my life. Some of you guys know that I have seven family members in my family. So incredible, right?!  But, there is something more important. Please be ready to listen to it. It is that all children in our family are all the pretty girls! Wow! How is it possible? It make you curious on who my father? He is look great, right?!

She goes on to write about the love of her life (a famous Korean actor), her strengths and weaknesses and her dream of being a wonderful career woman.  I love this girl.  She's ab-fab for sure.

Another girl who is about as funny as they come:

(She's going to play a song and stop it before the best part of the song) Just now, I stopped the music before the best part. Do you know the reason by any chance? wow~ That's because the highlight of this stage is me!  ...  (She goes on to talk about how she's the youngest student at Kyunghwa because her birthday is Feb. 29 and then she says): I was already given a birthday present when I came to Kyunghwa (She's going to lift up her skirt to show her legs): well muscled legs. Has everyone else received them too? 

She goes on to talk about her determination to study after she failed a business English exam and was "stricken with grief."  Then, she tells a story about some handsome man stopping her on the street to ask if she's the sister of some other girl who she looks a lot like and how disappointed she was that he wasn't asking her out.  HA!  I'm not sure what else her speech entailed because about half of each paragraph was still in Korean, but I'm sure it was just as delightful as the already translated parts :)

Based solely on these two speeches, I am over-the-moon excited for next Tuesday!  Bring on the awesome, Kyunghwa!  I'm all sorts of ready.