Seoul_to

It's around 8:50pm and I just got home a few minutes ago. In an effort to not be stuck at school this Friday very late, I sat down tonight and plugged through as many kinder phone teaching calls as possible. It is the bane of teaching kinder. It's right up there with the mostly worthless monthly plans that we have to make as well. Anyhow, I have to call up around 25 kids every other week to have a short 5min. conversation with them. It takes somewhere between 2 hours. It's not horrible, but trust me, it's gets old having the same conversation with 25 4-5 year olds. You can't exactly vary it that much. It's just not possible. We also don't get paid anything extra. It's just supposed to be in addition to our regular teaching hours.

So tonight as I was in the midst of calling one of the kids, Meg, a Korean teacher, happened to be in the teachers room as well. You can't help but hear what's going on if you're there. Anyhow, I got off the phone and she asked me if I'd ever seen the movie "Fargo". I turned and the only thing that came out of my mouth was, "Don't even tell me I sound like that!" Apparantly I did, a little, with some "eh" that I had thrown in trying to talk to one of the kids. And this was coming from one of the Koreans. She wasn't even from the states!

Just last Sunday I was talking to one of my best friends from home too and he was making fun of how I say WI. I guess I say it a bit like the rest of the country now, as in Wes-consin, instead of Wis-consin....like a true WI person would say. I guess that's what comes from around 4 years of living somewhere else.

I couldn't help but laugh tonight, not only because Meg was foreign and telling me I sounded like Fargo, but also knowing that just 2 days ago someone from my state was making fun of me because my accent has changed a bit....

Seoul_to_Soul
		~ Tuesday, November 02, 2004 It's around 8:50pm and I just got home a few minutes ago. In an effort to not be stuck at school this Friday very late, I sat down tonight and plugged through as many kinder phone teaching calls as possible. It is the bane of teaching kinder. It's right up there with the mostly worthless monthly plans that we have to make as well. Anyhow, I have to call up around 25 kids every other week to have a short 5min. conversation with them. It takes somewhere between 2 hours. It's not horrible, but trust me, it's gets old having the same conversation with 25 4-5 year olds. You can't exactly vary it that much. It's just not possible. We also don't get paid anything extra. It's just supposed to be in addition to our regular teaching hours. So tonight as I was in the midst of calling one of the kids, Meg, a Korean teacher, happened to be in the teachers room as well. You can't help but hear what's going on if you're there. Anyhow, I got off the phone and she asked me if I'd ever seen the movie "Fargo". I turned and the only thing that came out of my mouth was, "Don't even tell me I sound like that!" Apparantly I did, a little, with some "eh" that I had thrown in trying to talk to one of the kids. And this was coming from one of the Koreans. She wasn't even from the states! Just last Sunday I was talking to one of my best friends from home too and he was making fun of how I say WI. I guess I say it a bit like the rest of the country now, as in Wes-consin, instead of Wis-consin....like a true WI person would say. I guess that's what comes from around 4 years of living somewhere else. I couldn't help but laugh tonight, not only because Meg was foreign and telling me I sounded like Fargo, but also knowing that just 2 days ago someone from my state was making fun of me because my accent has changed a bit.... posted by ~B~ at 3:51 AM