high five!!

Holy cow, do my male students ever love to give high fives.  This is rarely done between themselves, though - it's an act that they reserve for me.  If they see me in the hallway, a certain group of guys will yell, "Teacher!  Teacher!  High five!" and after our hands meet they act like they are "all that and a bag of chips," haha.  One of my students persisted in saying "Nice to meet you!" and shaking my hand for the first three weeks.  Thank heavens, this guy has switched to the high five method of greeting me -- it's way easier and doesn't make me want to stop and explain the difference between "Nice to meet you" and "Nice to see you," ha.

Today my students (two mentally gifted, if not high level kids) decided it would be hilarious to yell my name whenever there was a down moment in class.  Generally I'd ignore them.  If I chose not to ignore them, though, they'd either a) ask for help, b) ask for a high five, or c) ask for candy.  They got no candy, they got all the help they needed, and they generally got high fives - at least until I decided that my hand hurt because their high fives were too hard, so I quit, ha.

I also had two members of the "HEY! TEACHER!" group come in and do a round or two of their shouting act again today -- still hilarious.  I do love those guys especially, it's true -- and not because they shout my name, ha.  I love them because they say hilarious things like, "I hate cats!  Cats are dirty!  But delicious!  Cats are delicious!" -- and then, two weeks later -- "SPAM?!  I love SPAM!  SPAM is delicious!"  (This guy may very well love Spam, but I do not think he has tried cat.)

What else?  Hmm, students are giving me candy.  It's pretty great, ha.  I generally just like to collect it instead of consume it - I think it's cute and it makes me smile to see it, ha.  Today I ate a piece, though, because it was after lunch and I needed to chew on something.  Pretty grapetastic, I must say, and it made my students (the ones who demanded high fives, as a matter of fact) start demanding to know my gum source, haha.

Annnd, hm.  My students have to be at school for way too long every day, and I know that they don't put in as many hours as many school kids do.  Lame all around - I think all of these kids need more sleep.  Their bodies can't like this schedule.  One of my more bizarre but adorable kids told me that he would be at school until 9:00pm, and considering that he got there around 8:00am, I think that's pretty unfortunate.  Yeah yeah, some kids go to hagwon later than that, but this is regular school - same building all day long.  Not for me, certainly.