Yesterday and today I met with the parents of my students for some good old fashion parent-teacher-translator conferences. For the most part, the parents were happy and said their children enjoyed my classes. It’s always nice to hear that you are doing a good job, and it’s even better when you get presents.
That’s right kids, the moms came bearing gifts. I ended up with some cake, cookies, vitamin drink, tea, and assorted soft drinks. In addition to these gifts I recieved some pretty odd compliments. Of course there was the ever popular, “You understand Korean very well,” but in addition I was told things like, “My son / daughter hates to study, but loves coming here,” and “My son said that you are not mean like his school English teacher,” and then there was, “My daughter says that Mr. Dunn is handsome.” Now this particular mom’s daughter is five years old, but it got weirder, as she was leaving she proclaimed to my boss that, “My daughter is right, he is very handsome.” I’m glad the conferences are over, because if I hear more stuff like this I might end up with a swelled head like Peter Brady after saving that girl in the toy store.
Anyhow on my way home I picked up a coat from the dry cleaner (not that I’ll need it since it’s now summer for some reason). Anyhow the coat had some fake fur trim that I had removed before dropping the coat off. Today when I picked up the coat the fur had been replaced, so now I have two pieces of fake fur trim for the hood of my coat. One is dark and one is light, and I have no idea why a second piece appeared.
