November!

Here are some pictures of our most recent Speech Night - the students wrote about an experience in their lives. The experiences ranged from memorable family vacations and receiving their first computers to breaking their arms and seeing a playground ghost. However, our favorite speech came from a student named "Vicky" - she wrote about meeting DaR (Daniel and Rachel) for the first time. Here is the text of her speech, you can click on the picture to enlarge it. We thought it was a really nice speech (even it she calls Daniel a little fat...)



And in the spirit of my blog's name (Small Face, Big Nose), here is the picture to accompany Vicky's speech. If you didn't believe that they actually think my nose is huge...I'm apparently Pinocchio!



Here are a few middle school students preparing for their speeches. These three boys made exciting speeches about their experiences: 1. winning a box of chicken and a pack of Mentos from an online cellphone "Free Zone" game 2. getting hit by a car and being excited because he had no school for 10 days 3. going on a school trip 4. and being the owner of his 4th rabbit (because the other 3 died in a matter of 2 weeks.) He even brought rabbit poo to school and said that we could eat it because of the vitamins.



Mask season begins!



This is the beginning of construction next to our school. Our boss is building a coffee shop (yeah!) and possibly a set of small apartment/condos in the future. Dan took this picture about 2 weeks ago, so now there are walls and flooring. We take these pictures as a tribute to Dan's nephew Bertie - he loves construction diggers, trucks, cranes and other machines that are manly.



A few weeks ago, actually on November 11, 2011, (11.11.11), it was a special day in Korea - Pepero Day! Pepero Day is really just made by the Pepero company. They have smartly and properly marketed and commercialized this one day, (due to the shape of their product looking like a number 1), so thousands of boxes of their chocolate biscuits are purchased. Now, this being 11.11.11 - all number ones... this Pepero Day was the Millennium of Pepero Days! Dan and I did not buy into the commercialization, so we provided a different treat for the students that was much more filling and nutritious - rice cakes! They still said: "Teacher, give me the pepero please." Oh well, can't win them all. Anyway, here is a combination of the gifts that we received from students.