My School

Hi everyone. This is my elementary school that I teach at. The school is pretty big. 1,003 students attend the school. I teach the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. So I have about 720 students. I know that was a pretty crazy number when i first started but now I'm use to it.

My first weeks in the school i was a little weirder out because I was a celebrity in the school. I kid you not students would run up to me in the hall just to say hello. Some students would touch my arm, hand, or even my hair and then skip off smiling. students all the way down the hall would call out me name just to wave at me. One of the 5th grade teachers told me that many of her students were writing about me in their homework diaries.

Now that I have been at the school for a month, absolutely nothing has changed other than the fact that I an just use to it. If anything the more shy students that dreamed about doing those kinds of things but never actually acted on them do to their shyness are now no longer shy around me so they too call out to me in the halls and pet my hair.

Whatever I think its cute and I love it when my students come into my office to say hello and hang out with me. So I am in a comfortable state of being treated like a famous person, which is kind of what it is like. people, students and teachers, are always watching you and what you are doing. well I thought i was good with it, but the other day it was brought to a whole new level that I wasn't even aware existed.

So normally when I good food shopping I go to a place that is about a half mile walk from my apartment. but I noticed on my bus ride home that i passed a shop and the bus stop is a little closer to my apartment so I thought it would be smarted to leave school, do my shopping and then take the bus home. NOPE. Normally when I go to the store people will stare at me and sometimes they try to speak to me in Korean or English. Sometimes they even take pictures of me. But all of that has become kind of normal. When I went into the store I totally forgot that when I shop near my home I never run into any of my students and I never thought about what would happen if I did run into them. Oh my god!


They went absolutely bananas! They screamed. They jumped up and down. They ran outside and got more students to come in. They followed me around the store so that every time I walk down a new aisle they were already there waiting for me. It was crazy! I ended up not being able to do any shopping because they were basically chasing me around the store and I was afraid to stay in one place for too long. So I guess I'll keep shopping in the store near me. If I feel really lonely or something then I'll stop in there again because it does brighten your day being admired by the masses. ha ha ha