Teaching and Trips

I have a lot of photos that have to do with life at school! Yippee! This may be the greatest picture I have ever seen in a text book- it was a lesson about being sick and following advice:

Is she or is she not CLEARLY giving the finger? What else could that possibly be? It's not like she's trying to get the waitress's attention at a restaurant. She's got to be saying something like, "you want me to go to work?! Fuck you, can't you see I'm sick?!" The kids would never notice, not the eight year olds the book is for anyway. Bless them.

At the end of every elementary class we do about 20 minutes of writing. Here is an example of the end of a lesson and a writing exercise I make on what we learned (the lesson was about how to use comparative adjectives with er or est):

Close up shot

Irene, complete with mouse ears, writing it out. 

Today we went on a field trip to a farm of sorts. The kids used a little scythe to gather some stalks of rice then put it through one of these which separates the rice from the stalks. Then they pounded some rice to separate the little skin that's on it. After that we went up a mountain to dig up some sweet potatoes. Last but not least we pounded some rice goo that makes a dessert I don't know how to pronounce, but they're gooey rice cakes with little to no taste. 

Here comes the rice!

Step on the pounder dealy!

Up the mountain to the sweet potatoes. 

Diggin em up!

Flora found a keeper!

Hammering out gooey rice.

Ever wondered what Korean moms pack for their kid's lunches? At school the kids get rice, kimchi, some kind of soup, a vegetable side that is usually seasoned with sesame oil and red pepper flakes, and the main which can be curry, eggy pancake, fish cakes, or some other weird thing. For their packed lunches, the vast majority of kids have kimbap. I guess kimbap is the Korean sandwich but it's much prettier and looks a lot harder to make to me. Most of them get a container of kimbap, a container of fruit and some packaged snack like cheetos. 

Carter had kimbap, some weird meat nuggets (the brown things) and some banana.

Agato enjoying his kimbap and using his kiddie chopsticks. 

Theses were a little different from kimbap but I don't know what it was. I thought this was better than kimbap but less pretty.  I've never seen the kids at school use a fork- that's new.

You get the idea. 

So that about covers typical school life, plus an extra special field trip. It was a beautiful day and nice to be outside but I was absolutely exhausted afterwards. G'night!