Final Days
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tomorrow will be our last day at ECC. We're tired and ready to come home so this is a big relief. Still, it will be sad, no doubt about it.
Last Saturday we got invited to have dinner with Sophie and her parents. Sophie is seven, and a very advanced English speaker for her age.
She lived in Australia for 10 months while her mother obtained some ESL certifications (her mom is fluent also). Anyway, Liz has been tutoring Sophie one on one for several months and to say thanks Sophie's parents cooked us dinner.
While we were talking to her parents during dinner (well, to her mom, her dad doesn't speak English) Sophie got a hold of my phone and decided it was time to take some pictures...about 20 of them to be exact. Here are the highlights -- yes, they're ALL of herself :-p ....
And here's our favorite:
After dinner they took us to a little sea-side/boardwalk Carnival in Incheon we never knew was here! That was a lot of fun. Sophie's dad and I got a little sick riding the Viking ship together.
Tuesday night was my final class with ICB2, a class that had the two most fluent students I teach: Stephanie and Diana. I really enjoyed getting to know them and teach them and when I went to class on Tuesday I found this:
The girls had set up a going away party for me complete with music (Stephanie DJ-ed), a candle, and snacks. We drank some bubbly apple juice, played some chess, and listened to Steph's loud electronic music (hey, she likes Daft Punk, Air and Chemical Brothers!). When you have a class of all girls and they throw party its inevitable they'll focus more on the clothing than the party itself. Hence, these costumes:
Turns out it was a "silly clothes" party. I didn't really have silly clothes so they decided that the Korean co-teacher (Joshua) and myself should get a little eye shadow on. Josh was a good sport :-) ... I'll miss him too.
Sometime during all the hull-a-ba-loo Christine grabbed my phone and took a "scary" candle picture:
It was so much fun. I had been teaching three of them (Jenny, Diana, and Stephanie) for the full year so after the party was over I cried a little bit.
Last Saturday we got invited to have dinner with Sophie and her parents. Sophie is seven, and a very advanced English speaker for her age.
She lived in Australia for 10 months while her mother obtained some ESL certifications (her mom is fluent also). Anyway, Liz has been tutoring Sophie one on one for several months and to say thanks Sophie's parents cooked us dinner.While we were talking to her parents during dinner (well, to her mom, her dad doesn't speak English) Sophie got a hold of my phone and decided it was time to take some pictures...about 20 of them to be exact. Here are the highlights -- yes, they're ALL of herself :-p ....
And here's our favorite:
After dinner they took us to a little sea-side/boardwalk Carnival in Incheon we never knew was here! That was a lot of fun. Sophie's dad and I got a little sick riding the Viking ship together.
Tuesday night was my final class with ICB2, a class that had the two most fluent students I teach: Stephanie and Diana. I really enjoyed getting to know them and teach them and when I went to class on Tuesday I found this:
The girls had set up a going away party for me complete with music (Stephanie DJ-ed), a candle, and snacks. We drank some bubbly apple juice, played some chess, and listened to Steph's loud electronic music (hey, she likes Daft Punk, Air and Chemical Brothers!). When you have a class of all girls and they throw party its inevitable they'll focus more on the clothing than the party itself. Hence, these costumes:
Turns out it was a "silly clothes" party. I didn't really have silly clothes so they decided that the Korean co-teacher (Joshua) and myself should get a little eye shadow on. Josh was a good sport :-) ... I'll miss him too.
Sometime during all the hull-a-ba-loo Christine grabbed my phone and took a "scary" candle picture:
It was so much fun. I had been teaching three of them (Jenny, Diana, and Stephanie) for the full year so after the party was over I cried a little bit.
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8:25 AM
too funny!