For Your Entertainment...

The past 5 weeks at SNET we've hosted winter camps. Public schools are officially on winter break and we recruit kids from the Seoul suburbs to spend two weeks at SNET. This year's theme is the "SNET Travel Magazine." In general, the students have higher English levels then the varied groups from public schools. Their advanced language abilities often lead to amusing stories during magazine crafting time. Here are their tales...

STORY ONE
I am cutting out world wonder photos for students and eavesdropping on conversation one mellow morning.

Student 1: Korean, Korean, Korean, FASHION TERROR, Korean.

Erin: Um, what are you talking about? What in the world is FASHION TERROR???

Student 2: Oh my gosh teacher, her father is a FASHION TERRORIST!

Erin: What? What does he wear?

Student 1: Teacher...blue pants....red sweater....GREEN SOCKS!

Erin: Wow, that is awful. What does your mother say?

Student 1: (shakes head fervently, squints eyes, and wags her finger) tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!

Erin: This is unbelievable.

STORY TWO
This one takes place in cooking class. I can't help but enjoy the students ability to comprehend and sass back with sarcasm. It's likely because I only see the students for a week and don't have to be concerned with long-term behavior.

Erin: Today we will be making insect kebabs. What is an insect?

Student: A bug.

Erin: Excellent. Who can give an example of a bug?

Student: Uh, you're a bug...you're bugging me. Ha, ha, ha.

Erin: Witty, but incorrect.

STORY THREE

Erin: Boys, please speak English so I can chat with you guys. What are you talking about?

Student: Teacher, did you hear about the aliens. Yeah, they are coming. The UFO is the size of Seoul to Busan. They are arriving on December 24th, 2012.

Erin: No way, who told you this?

Student: We all saw it on the Korean show, "Surprise." It is confirmed by Russian, Korean and American scientists.

Erin: Awesome, but how do they know when the ship will arrive?

Student: Cause it's by Pluto right now.

Erin: Impressive. Are you scared or excited?

Student: Excited, unless we die.

STORY FOUR
After a round of eenie meenie minny mo to choose one of the over anxious volunteers.

The Non-winning Student: Teacher, I think you are a kindergarten teacher (mocking me in a girly voice) eenie meenie minnie minny mooey.

Erin: Touche 8 year old!

The New Years Ski Trip

We ventured to High 1 ski resort in Gangwon-do, Korea for the New Year.

With an early dismissal on Friday, a big group of people from our school hopped on a 5 p.m. bus to the west. After consuming a little too much soju on our "party" bus, we had to demand a rest stop in 5 minute intervals u ntil the driver pulled over.

Around 9:30 we checked into our mountain-side hotel. We rang in the New Year with an evening of drinki ng jenga and fireworks in the streets.

Our ski adventure the following day didn't go as smoothly. Apparently mass amounts of

Koreans also enjoy skiing for the New Year. Due to crowds, I managed to get in 4 runs in 4 hours. The people who bought the 24 hour pass were much luckier as the resort was dead on Sunday morning. The mountain wasn't steep, but the runs were massive. It took two gondola trips and roughly 25 minutes to reach the peak. But cruising down the slopes in the crisp air was simply refreshing. On Sunday, a festive snowball fight and snowman session with Relee and Sara remidied my ski misadventure.

Thanks to all our friends for the laughs.

Who new there were plastic pink palm trees in Korea??? Fabulous!