The weather here has been hot. We have been having heat lightening almost every night for a week now. Since we live inland there is no breeze, just hot humid heat. I personally like the heat ...minus the smell of my kids and garbage on the streets. With the increase of heat comes the reminders about "fan death" or as they say "pan death." Koreans believe that if you are in a room with the windows and doors closed and a fan on that the fan will suck all the air and you will die. I have tried to reason with some of them about the theory behind this and how it makes no sense, but they tell me is "very dangerous" so now I just smile and nod.

So this week my kids have been very annoying. They are all shutting down and going into vacation mode, even though there is no "vacation" from academy. No matter how awful my kids are, there seems to be a funny moment every week. This week we were talking about adverbs in my writing class. So I explained an adverb describes how someone is doing something.

"He runs quickly" "She speaks slowly"

After writing 101 adverbs on the board, and going over many examples I gave them an assignment. I told each of them to write about a trip to Africa and talk about what they were going to do there and how they were going to do it. I reminded them that they had to use adverbs and they all got to work. After about 10 minutes of writing time some of my kids were finished. I knew this because I could hear the haunting "pinisheeee teacher" in that Korean accent and the common error of changing F for P. So I started to walk around reading and correcting some of the students work. I had some great stories about "playing in the sun peacefully", "riding elephants excitedly", and "swimming in the ocean quickly". Just as class was ending I get to a student who writes...

"I eat quickly" (not bad, in Africa you would have to eat at some point)
"I sleep quietly" (ok again not bad)
"I poop joyfully"

The last I found a little disturbing. I agree all of those things would probably happen while you were on a trip to Africa...but somethings are better left untold. Although the word of last week was constipated, so if the kid is "pooping joyfully" I guess that means things are working well.