Last week a new girl joined one of my classes. The first couple days she was kind of quiet, but today for some reason she decided it was high time she asked a ton of really random questions (in fairly decent English) about Mr. Dunn.
“Mr. Dunn…how do you write your name?”
“Mr. Dunn…when is your birthday?”
“Mr. Dunn…what is your hobby?”
“Mr. Dunn…what is your umm…고향 (hometown)?”
I answered her questions, and she jotted down notes in her notebook, like she was interviewing me for a fanzine or the 고양초등학교일보 (Goyang Elementary School Daily). Probably the weirdest question and answer session I’ve been subjected to since arriving here.
Fast forward an hour to a different class. Today they were covering “I” and “me” and when to use each of them. After some practice and verbal exercises, the students had to create a sentence using “I” and a sentence using “me.” Allow me to present what would have to be the best two sentence combination ever drafted: “I am hungry. Give me a cat.”
Another day living it up in 고양시.
