"Eskimo! Eskimo!"

Last night, I Googled "Korean Country Music" so I could find out for myself what it sounded like. Just as I expected, it didn't sound ANYTHING like the American country music that I'm used to. I went into the office today and told Darren that I had looked it up. On my break, I told him that Korean country music sounds like bluegrass music to me, which I don't really prefer. He started laughing, and said, "Blue...grass?" I tried to describe what bluegrass music was like and what kind of instruments there were, but he was still confused. He got on the computer and went to Google. This is what he typed: "blue glasses." No WONDER he was confused!! I corrected him and typed in "bluegrass music" and played a short clip from YouTube for him. He found a short clip of a Korean country singer, and I listened to that. He asked me what American country music sounds like, so I got my iPod and played two songs for him: Jason Aldean's "She's Country" and Craig Morgan's "Bonfire." He really liked them a lot! He told me that American country music sounds like Korean rock. Well, now we know :)

In my second to last class, we were talking about weather. I had the students brainstorm as many weather-related words they could think of to get our lesson started. While I was writing their responses on the board, I heard a loud bang! behind me. I turned around and one of my students, Brian, had slammed his book down on his desk. I asked him what he was doing, and he replied, "Eskimo! Eskimo!" and was swatting the air. Another student said, "He kill bug." And Brian still kept saying, "Eskimo!" I finally realized he was trying to say "mosquito!" but had gotten his words mixed up. Definitely one of the funnier moments of the day. :)