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To kill time I usually sling them a piece of paper and get them to draw me something from the book. One boy, Griffin, doesn't seem to be able to draw anything other than a gigantic crocodile devouring an elephant. If I berate him for his single-mindedness, he'll scribble out the elephant and replace it with:

a) Potato Pals, the ill-fated protagonists of our reading adventures

or

b) me.

So basically I get eaten by a giant crocodile at least once a week.

Anyways, today I decided to draw too. I started with a masterful portrait of a Potato Pal trolling for fish ("On a camping trip, we go fishing!") and, of course, catching the omnipresent river boot instead. Who puts all these goddamn boots in the river?? Because boots don't taste nearly as good as fish.

A few of the kids were bored and acting up, so I solemnly drew them into my picture... drowning pitiably in the river. Their reaction was rather horrified, so I flipped the paper to start again and drew them all hanging out in a tent. Boredom kicked in once more and OH NO! an evil looking bear was menacing the tentful of children. The girls looked scared so I penciled myself in between them and the bear, plunging a dagger deep into the beast's eye. Griffin then thought he would be a smartass and scribbled me (and the bear) out of the picture, so I retaliated by setting the tent and children on fire.

It was a good class.

Chris Clemens As Depicted By Small Korean Children

Posted by Chris at 12:46 AM >> Commentations (10)