Little Friends Pt. 2 - 小朋友

Left to Right: Mike, Peter, Hanna, Elaine, me, Tanya, Suzy, Michael

For the second time I visited the cram school and upon arriving was informed they wanted me to teach some english. I went into the classroom and was greeted with an overwhelming practically shouted "HELLO" from all the kids and when I told them my name was greeted with an equally underwhelming look of confusion on everyones face about the pronunciation. All it took was the words "like Michael Jordan" for it to click with everyone haha.

I taught them the difference between  on, in, under, and near, and then quizzed each kid individually. Everyone got it~

I go into the next room and these kids are nuts. 'Nuts' in the immediately fall in love with them all kind of 'nuts'. During introductions I gave the ones who didn't have English names their very own English name and they thought it was the greatest. A little boy named Michael welcomed me and introduced himself by jumping into the middle of the room and doing what he called the "duck dance" to the roar of laughter of the class.

We played a game they called "change the chairs" where one person memorizes everyone in the room. Everyone counts to 10 in english and the person up front turns around and everyone scrambles as fast as they can to change seats. The person in front turns around and has to put everyone back in their original seats.

It was my turn to play. After turning back around, the first thing I did was put Michael into the middle of the room and put him into the "duck dance" position as if that was his proper place/seat. This effectively began the laughing/giggling fit mood of the class that wouldn't end until after I had said goodbye and left.

They thought it was hilarious when I sat among them and pretended to be one of them. When the person up front turned around I was pretending to read a book (upside down on accident) to jokingly hide my face. I looked around and all the other kids were giggling hard and doing the exact same- even  down to the upside down book. Michael (the class clown) had his book on his head like a hat.

After a few more rounds we all took pictures together and I taught them how to spell their English names. After it was over the teacher told me to come back any time and that they'd pay me if I wanted to ever teach English there~

Elaine wanted a picture with me doing Gangnam Style

Michael and I doing his famous "Duck Dance"