I LOVE MY KIDS!
Okay, so here’s my awesome home room…the
greatest combination of children ever.
This is my homeroom, minus one. Cindy decided to hide, very typical of herself.
Cindy actually has to start this
list. I have never met, nor will I ever again meet, anyone like Cindy.
She is a league of her own. With a wandering mind, an imagination the
size of China, a high-pitched voice, and an extremely short attention
span, Cindy is quite the character. Let’s just say if she was in Harry
Potter, she would definitely be Luna Lovegood.
Every day, Cindy hugs and kisses my stomach and
says, “You are my mother. Hello, mother.” She says the wackiest things,
about how something is so beautiful and nice, or asking me where babies
come from. It’s really hard to capture Cindy’s personality, but let’s
just say I’m putting together a video montage of just her. It’s probably
going to win major awards, no big dealio.
I would love to take Cindy home to America. I kind of wish I was actually her mother, not just pretending.
Alliean is next. I’m pretty
positive her name was originally Allie and it somehow transformed into
Alliean over the years, through communication barriers. Anyways, Alliean
is part of the tight three; she, Ling Ling and Emma are great friends.
Alliean is always happy. I can’t remember once over the past
four months when she was mad or sad or anything negative; she is always
smiling. Alliean is pretty good at English and works hard most days.
Sometimes she likes to play and laugh with her friends instead of
listening, but she is still a very good student. Usually if I ask what
she is laughing about and she tells me, I start laughing, too.
Ling Ling is AMAZING, I love this
girlie so much. She is totally a cartoon character. Every single day she
wears these tight braids on the sides of her head, they always flop
around while she dances and plays. She always tells me about how her
grandmother is the one who does my hair and how she can help me do my
hair, too.
Ling Ling is the best in my class. She translates
if necessary, she is always wearing the red academic patches on her
shirt(it’s a Communist thing for the best of the best students), and she
is completely trustworthy. Ling Ling likes all the boys (5 of them, and
if you ask she will tell you and everyone which boys) and all the boys
like her. She is pretty much the complete package…adorable, hilarious,
and a genius. I will really, really miss this girl, as a student and a
friend.
Henry is such a sweetheart. I have
a million other pictures with him, but this one is the cutest. :) He
isn’t the most popular boy, but he is sosososo sooooooooo good. He loves
getting picked first for things and just wants to feel special. When we
are walking back at the end of the day, I always tell him, “Henry you
are just so good.” He just smiles quietly. Love that kid. He is also the
first one to help me, if I spill papers or something. Love.
Since the name “Henry” is really hard for Chinese
people to say, the kids in class always call him hungry because they
think it’s so funny that his name sounds like hungry. He takes the
teasing well, though; he doesn’t cry or get mad he just laughs with
them. Henry loves wrestling with the boys, playing with little toy cars,
and being extremely boy-ish.
Martin is another cutie. I’ll
never forget the first day of class. I asked, what’s your name? And he
said back, “Ma-tiiiiiiiiiin.” He has such a huge smile and I’ve
developed a great relationship with the kid. He loves high-fives, hugs,
and getting chased around.
When practicing his English, Martin always strains
his face like he’s trying his very hardest in the entire world. It’s so
adorable. The kid only means well, and couldn’t hurt a fly.
Deek is so funny! At first I
thought he was going to be a trouble maker but I was so wrong. About a
month into teaching, Deek said something in English that none of the
other kids understood. I showered him with praise, and so he continued
speaking English throughout the lesson. Deek really changed that day,
and became one of my best students.
Deek is a hilarious lil’ dude. He loves dancing and
making other people laugh…he does this thing which I named the “Deek
Walk” which is pretty much him swinging his hips and walking
sooooooooooo funny! Good news, I caught it on video when he wasn’t
looking one day! Haha. I’ll really miss this kid, he brought so much to
the classroom and made me smile everyday. :D
Susan is super cute. She has this
spunky short hair and acts like she is the “bad girl” in class, but she
really isn’t at all. For some reason she really wants me not to like
her. Any time I say anything nice to her, Susan just yells, “No, teacha I
don’t want you to like-ah me.” So funny.
Susan loves little prizes and toys, she has even
gotten in trouble for stealing tokens sometimes. Tokens are the little
coins the kids get for speaking English, we add them up and they
exchange the tokens for prizes. Susan always quickly spends her tokens
on candy and tiny prizes, and they always make her enitre week. Susan is
such a sweet heart, and I like her a lot, even though that might make
her mad at me. :)
Emma is almost like a little
sister. She is one of my best students, with almost perfect English and
an amazing personality. She is super smart, sarcastic, and real. If
she’s mad at you or sad or tired, she will tell you. But most of the
time, she is really happy to be in class and participate.
Emma is super witty and sarcastic; she has an
awesome laugh and is a really good girl. Emma is so cute and another
amazing student I will really miss. Gosh I don’t even wanna think about
leaving this girl in a week. :( Sad face.
King. Oh, King. It was really
difficult to get used to King’s personality, at first he was quite the
troublemaker, wrestling with other kids and breaking the rules. However,
as we have gotten to know each other better through the semester, King
and I have become awesome friends. He has really learned to respect me
as a teacher and learned not be totally crazy and act out all the time. I
also let him have time to be a kid. Everyday before class he hides and
then jumps out and scares Teacha Hailey. Hailey does a great job,
screaming her head off and acting extremely terrified, while King gets a
huge kick out of it everyday.
Anytime we play card games, all the kids laugh at
the fact that one card is named after King. When we played Go Fish, they
would always say, “King, do you have a King?” and then laugh
hysterically. Oh, King.
Jack is da bomb diggity.
Approximately halfway through the semester, I was informed that despite
the misleading spelling, his name is actually pronounced “Jake.” I asked
the kid if he wanted to be called Jack or Jake, and he said Jack so I
went with that. :) haha.
Anyways, Jack is super funny. He gets mad if he’s
not picked first to count tokens or play a game, but he is just the
epitome of a little boy. He wants to wrestle, he is impatient, and he
just loves playing a lot more than he loves learning. Such a cutie.
Well, that’s the end of my homeroom.
You’re probably seething with jealousy that I get to chill with these
boss kids everyday. I know, they are really awesome. I will miss my
homeroom so much more than I ever thought. We joke around and have fun
every day, while learning English along the way. They have affected my
life forever.
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