My yes!

My new boy John hits everyone and I don't know what to do about it. It's really a pain... badoom ch! And one of our class rules specifically says "no hurting - hugging!).

I love when Yoon tries really hard to tell me something, realizes he can't, and smiles.

Whenever my kids want to tell me about something they have at home they say something close to "me house two television!" or "Mindy three crowns!". Often it's a lie, but the point is that this week I'm trying to get them to say "I have two televisions at home". It's a difficult task.

Even worse, my elementary kids say "my yes!" If they want to say I like that, I have that, or anything similar to that. I have implemented a no "my" rule (unless appropriate - I better teach when it's appropriate). So they started saying "I yes!" instead which I guess is a little bit better.

Korean grammatical constructing is the very very rare subject-object-verb. Or is it object-subject-verb...? Hmm. I know nothing about grammar, Korean or otherwise. They never taught me in school... Anyway, anytime you want to say something in Korean it's backwards from English.

"Please give me one Kimchi mandu" in Korean is "kimchi mandu one please give me."

"I am going to the store" in Korean is "I store to go."

Etc.

So when I come back to Toronto, please forgive me for not being able to hold a Korean conversation. All I can handle are vocabulary words provided by my five year olds and a few key restaurant phrases. Ahh, a year well spent.