I gave my students $1000!

Intensives have started over here in Korea. That means that school is out and the kids don’t have to go to school for two months!! YIPEE!! If only that were the case! In Korea school vacation means that kids get to go to hangwons double time and so hangwon teachers get to work more too! I started my intensive hours bright and early Monday morning and so far have been taking a few hours of work home each night so it feels like I’ve been working 12 hr days.  Hopefully this won’t be the case in a few days once things settle down and the new schedule become routine. Tonight my evening was taken up by reading numerous essays on the benefits of traveling to both Europe and America. I ‘gave’ each student $1000 to take the trip and this is what they told me:


Traveling can be dangerous.
-America was not good. It was narcotic city and very bad. 
-There are many bad people like thief. So I'm little scared and if I go to Europe. 
-First, Europe is small country's mob. 
-European laws are very scary but I will go to fantastic Europe! 
-But America's have a dangerous gun and someone might shoot me!!  I decide I will go Europe because America is too dangerous. 
-The bad thing is big grounds because if the mother is on (picture of one side of America) and I'm on (picture of the other side of America) we cannot find each others. 
-And in American, the bridge [The Golden Gate Bridge] is maybe broke and we will danger!! 
-We can die if we go to near of pisa's tower.


Hamburgers make you fat.
-I am so fat now because I only eat hamburgers!!!
-Amarica have too many fast foods so we will be fat. But I want to go to America and I will not eat the fast food. 
-America Bad things is haven't great health they have oily food so make them fat and sick. 
-And we eat hamburgers always but if you eat a lot of hamburgers you can fat. 
-America have many cows and pigs so when we get there we can eats lots of meets. 
-The bad thing is American eat meat very much so I can fat. 


We should just stay in Korea.
-America have culture less than Europe.
[and Korea? does it have culture more than them both?]
-America school class is very slow than Korea. It is very not good I think! 
[but me thinks that going to school all day over school vacation is not a good thing either!]
-But America is very noisy because many people live there.
[and Korea is not noisy because ONLY 23 million people live in Seoul?] 


Well there you have it!  Be careful where you go and what you eat over there in that dangerous and unhealthy West!


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