"OH YEAH!!!"

Not much is really going on this day. It was one of those "normal" days (if such a thing exists here). I did have the opportunity to teach some of my kindergarten students to bellow, "I'm the Macho Man Randy Savage...OH YEAH!" in a manner like, well Macho Man Randy Savage. I then would send them to kick Darrell's door open and bellow such a phrase. He retaliated by sending a girl in to tell me that "Wyatt, your class farts all the time so your room smells like poop!" (damn older and smarter kids being in his class). I was able to counter (and save face) with a hastily assembled "Oh yeah?! He who smelt it dealt it!" My kindergarten class is far more uber. My elementary classes are...well incredibly less uber. My class composed of first and second graders is not all about learning English. For the most part they just kind of sit there drawing in their books or trading stickers. Today I made them rip pages out of their books since they weren't doing them anyway, and had them throw them away...looks like I got one math class for next month covered. My older elementary students are frustrating in a different way. They are pre-teens, and are in the process of developing a "teenage attitude." With the girls it's not as much of a problem, since their teenagehood manifests itself in crushes upon myself and the occassional gossiping in Korean. The boys on the other hand are all about some heinous attitudes, but don't have the stones to back up such attitudes. Today I asked one student if he had finished his writing assignment. He turns to me, glares, and with more bad attitude then one might find on a Rikki Lake stage in his voice, bellows, "WHAAAAT...." That was it! Pretty much I was like, "It's on buddy!" So I lay into him about his shitty attitude (it's not the first instance of such 'tude), and he claims that he couldn't hear me and didn't know what I asked (which was BS), so I countered with "The ask to repeat the question...don't give me bad attitude!" He gives me more attitude, so I tell him to hit the bricks (there was 3 minutes until class was over anyway). He just stares at me, so I put his book in his bookbag and the bell rang. Now I'm willing to overlook a lot of crap in that class, but rudeness directed toward my person...that's not going down! If I was his regular teacher I would have hit him (as I'm pretty sure that Korean teachers are allowed to do such things), but being white at a non-manditory school pretty much rules that out, so I'll try and break them of such bad habits, and when I look for my next job it's all about no elementary...kindergarten is much less annoying than these stupid elementary students.


Charly bellowing, "I'm the Macho Man Randy Savage...OH YEAH!" Cameo appearance by Darrell and "Fat Teacher." Bonus strange English on Charly's shirt. Overall Grade of Picture: Totally Awesome!


A horrible picture of myself.