The flowers are out, causing an array of colors and allergies. The birds are migrating back, building nests and chirping away for a crack at a mate. The temperature's changing from coat-and-glove weather to ice-lolly weather. Even if you weren't thinking of the image, it's not like people are wearing gloves and coats made of ice lollies, that would leave one hell of a sticky mess in no time.
It's been a rather uneventful two weeks, to be honest. Instead of telling you stories of drunken escapades in Itaewon two weekends ago and a weekend-long sinus attack this last weekend, I will tell a couple of classroom anecdotes.
The one stories was with my 'Rainbow Bridge First Year' student, Justin. A bit of background to the program. Rainbow Bridge is divided by months and weeks. Twelve months with four weeks in each, to be exact. Just a quick side note, we SLP teachers only get 10 days holiday, so if you do the math 52weeks minus 48weeks equals four weeks minus 10holidays equals 18days where we've literally just got to make shit up and keep the kids entertained. Anyway, back to Rainbow Bridge with Justin. It was 'day one' of April's second week in the teaching schedule and the lesson for the day was to teach the kid how to say 'g as in gap, h as in hat and i as in igloo'. Riveting stuff. Just keep in mind that Koreans pronounce their hard g's with more of a 'k' sound, and Justin is no exception. The lesson goes smoothly from the warm up to the main part, and we've started learning words like horse, inch, grass, ink, happy, ill and garden. We then move on to the Rainbow Bridge activity book and the exercise has five 'fill-in-the-missing-word' exercises. One of the sentences is 'I like to chew . . . .'. So Justin, in his excitement (what little he has), figures out the answer and says "I like to chew gum" where the 'g' sounds more like a 'k'. Hell's teeth, I moved on to the next part of the exercise quickly.
It's been a rather uneventful two weeks, to be honest. Instead of telling you stories of drunken escapades in Itaewon two weekends ago and a weekend-long sinus attack this last weekend, I will tell a couple of classroom anecdotes.
The one stories was with my 'Rainbow Bridge First Year' student, Justin. A bit of background to the program. Rainbow Bridge is divided by months and weeks. Twelve months with four weeks in each, to be exact. Just a quick side note, we SLP teachers only get 10 days holiday, so if you do the math 52weeks minus 48weeks equals four weeks minus 10holidays equals 18days where we've literally just got to make shit up and keep the kids entertained. Anyway, back to Rainbow Bridge with Justin. It was 'day one' of April's second week in the teaching schedule and the lesson for the day was to teach the kid how to say 'g as in gap, h as in hat and i as in igloo'. Riveting stuff. Just keep in mind that Koreans pronounce their hard g's with more of a 'k' sound, and Justin is no exception. The lesson goes smoothly from the warm up to the main part, and we've started learning words like horse, inch, grass, ink, happy, ill and garden. We then move on to the Rainbow Bridge activity book and the exercise has five 'fill-in-the-missing-word' exercises. One of the sentences is 'I like to chew . . . .'. So Justin, in his excitement (what little he has), figures out the answer and says "I like to chew gum" where the 'g' sounds more like a 'k'. Hell's teeth, I moved on to the next part of the exercise quickly.
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