STUDENTS!!!

From left, Ally, Mandy, Becky, Scout, Radley, and Fiona. Ally wrote my name on her "Wake Up" book and surrounded it in hearts, and all of the other girls followed her lead. It's a charmed life I live.

From left, Brian, Nick, Chris, Merpit, and Jenny. Important to note that girls seem to become uninterested in having their photos taken as they grow older, but for boys, it's the opposite. I can't back this up with any credible sources, so don't quote me on this.

From left, Jenny, Alice, Todd, and Chad. This is probably my favorite class-- small, manageable, and very skilled at English. Chad and Alice are particularly good, the former always entering things into his Korean-English Electronic Dictionary to get complex messages across to me. I also think Chad is kind of a heart-throb, a matinee idol, not that the girls would ever let on.

Radley acts as the pit boss during a heated game of Twister. Kevin, the kid on the far right, always wears really good shoes (Koreans have the best taste in footwear ever), but is also unbearably slow. The other kids have caught on to this, and it makes me trying to give him help very embarrassing for him.

Taking photos of Korean children, especially with my sub-par camera, is often a blurry affair. Here, Gabe makes his Deniro-as-Jake-LaMotta face, while Seven (yes, that's his name) looks positively angelic in the left corner.

A few of you have been asking for photos of the adorable gremlins that occupy my classroom each day, and I aim to please.

I apologize for turning my blog into a caption-writing contest, but I do feel a certain need to get material on here, despite limitations in the time that I have to write.