Teacher's Day

Korea is a pretty cool place in that there are awesome holidays all the time.  Take for example you have two birthdays. A solar calendar one and a lunar calendar one.  There's a Children's day, a Parent's day, a Teacher's day, etc. On Teacher's Day I got some presents from my 1st graders.  I got flowers from one girl, some vitamins from another and a reusable shopping bag from one of the boys.  I decided that I was going to write them thank you notes, but I was going to write it in Korean for them.  I wasn't expecting their reactions.  They were elated to see something in Korean that I had written.  One girl opened it up and instantly I got a hug.  :-)  The other highlight of the day was getting ice cream from a gas station later that night and the person serving the soft serve looked at me and goes 선생 which means teacher and I nodded my head and I got a couple of extra swirls of the ice cream.  :-)

Whenever I get reactions like this from kids it always makes me think of this audio clip from School of Rock

Audio Clip