I'll sing ya a song from the old country that'll make your face blister with the pity.

Annyeong!

It has been a particularly hardcore week in terms of teaching. The students are currently taking exams so my fellow ‘round eye’ and I had to ring over one hundred and seventy students to conduct ‘speaking tests.’ It’s a little perturbing having to ring children and bombard them with personal questions but the process had its funny moments. We were given a list of random questions to ask that elicited some humorous responses. I’ve compiled a list of my favourites:

Question: What is your name?

Student answer:  No.

Question: How are you?

Student answer: I am Korean.

Question: How old are you?

Student response: How old are you?

What is your favourite thing to eat?

Student answer: Pizza.

Follow up question: Why do you like pizza?

Student answer: ………………… Cheese.

What do carnivorous plants eat?

Student answer: Sometimes, I like to eat carrots.

Question: Describe your favourite thing to eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner?

Student answer: My mother is a good cook, I’m glad she lives.

In other news, I went shopping today and bought a rather fetching pair of red runners and was then rewarded for purchasing said runners with a gift of a tiny shoe in a glass jar. Which was nice if a tad unusual. My new runners aren’t half so comfy as my beloved lesbian runners but I felt it was time I invested in some shoes of less lesbianic proportions. It’s a slippery slope, when one starts wearing beige ecco shoes it may not be long before one finds oneself clad in a complimentary navy fleece or, God forbid, sporting a bum bag. Le shudder….

P.S. You shall no doubt be greatly relieved to hear that the silver box with the red eye that was concerning me is in fact a fire alarm and not a sentient computer bent on the destruction of the human race.