Be choir! And Bill Gates invented the internet!

Lunch 14-11-11

First here is a picture of my lunch - Awesome... LOL - this is published on our school website - 헐... -  daily...Today it was a radish (?) soup water kimchi Fried squid and a kind of  Bi Bim thing with of cours the Bap (rice). 



On Monday the Seongnam Metropolitan choir visited our school to give an hours performance, highlights for me were the School Mistress of Authority and Discipline Ajuma! (I don't know what her correct title is so I will call her that, MAD for short and a belting performance of  Nessun dorma by some guy who looked like the phantom of the opera without the mask...

After about 40 mins of rousing show songs and smiley dance routines the kids started to get a bit restless and started talking and playing with their smart phones... so MAD stopped the MC Mid introduction of a weak Solo number to take the mic and 'calm the crowd'. Now MAD does this by  picking on individual students and making them stand up and walk to the back of the room where they can sit down and carry on talking (This is OK because their sound is drowned out by all the teachers who are also stood at the back talking and playing with their smart phones.  As the performance resumed MAD weaved her way among the crowd to 'select' some more individuals for the comfort of the back of the room. Her selection methods ranged from a gentle shoulder tap,  a poke in the ear, a series of short sharp "HARD" taps on the head with a knuckle which was audible from across the auditorium and a kick in the spine that Messi would have been proud of. The kick launched the unsuspecting 6th grader into the adjacent row, Luckily the performance ended before there was more people at the back than in the crowd and before anyone was hospitalised.

The following day a grade 5 student asked me 

"Rob Teacher, yesterday... singing... enjoy?"

I replied "Oh, the Choir..."

He looked at me rather distraught and said "Be Quiet...  Oh Ok"

I apologised and explained that I had said 'The choir' and explained what a choir was... 

During a lesson this weeks the invention of the internet came up and students were guessing the year, They first thought it was around the year 2000 and they kept talking about Bill Gates. Bill Gates (see my recent post with another It was not Bill gates fact) didn't invent 'the internet' I said... "Really they replied" looking confused, I think one of them mentioned Steve Jobs... "No" I said it was a US university and it was then developed by the US military... 

They think I am mad, it has to be  either Bill or Steve they invented everything but bill won because Steve is dead!