<< No Leg Beg | Main | All-Natural Preservation >> August 24, 2006 >> Teaching Privacy At one of my tutoring gigs, the older boy sometimes fucks up and reads the wrong section of dialogue in our book. When this happens, his mom loudly cries, "Chun Min! Washing face!" Then he has to go to the bathroom and splash himself with water, apparently as a remedy for tiredness, while I try not to laugh. Lately I have been randomly shouting, "Washing face!" even when he doesn't mess up, and his mom still makes him do it. He's onto me but I don't think she has a clue. The two brothers are fiercely competitive. Every chance they get, they use a new line of grammar as a vehicle for describing bodily assault on the other: "If I kicked Hae Won in the face, he is bury" (later corrected to '... he would be buried') Hae Won's most famous retort is, "You have dog manners," and sometimes "You is a seafood manner," when he's insane with rage. Whenever their mom glances away, someone invariably gets headbutted in the ear and I have to pretend that I am laughing at something funny in the book. Today we accidentally stumbled into the facts of life. Hae Won (reading): I have a problem with my boyfriend. Me: Hahaha... you have a boyfriend, Hae Won. I am infantile. Hae Won: Chun Min has a girlfriend! This statement is apparently delivered as an insult. Chun Min: Yes. I have girlfriend. Many girlfriends! Thumbs up from me. Hae Won is nonplussed but still in the dark about the respect accorded a true 'playa' Hae Won: Chun Min have one thousand girlfriend! Chun Min: Yes! A second, more careful, thumbs up. This kid is apparently 1000 times more hype than me. He is now a registered threat on the market. Hae Won reels, clearly disoriented from this dramatic restructuring of his world. Why the hell would you want 1000 girls? Are girls more valuable than PSP games? Something is wrong here. He fumbles for a split second, before triumphantly coming up with... Hae Won (pointing at his brother): PREGNANT! Who is pregnant? Chun Min? One of his legions of ladies? Everyone dissolves into hysterics, Hae Won gets kicked in the knee and poor Mom, whose conversational abilities are vastly eclipsed by her kids', throws up her hands in confusion. Later I get paid $155.00. Could I possibly do this back home? Please? [Korea] [teaching] [private lessons] Posted by Chris at 09:54 AM >> Commentations (5)
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