I`m 35 years old, and I`m an English teacher in America, but I`m Korean-American. I just got my American citizen a few months ago. Also, I`m as good at speaking English as any American.
That`s why I could get a job as an English teacher at school. I am teaching kids 5~7 years old.
Sometimes I love what they are giggling, sometimes I really don`t like to interrogate them about they`ve done because they are not good at listening. If I want them to listen well, I need to spell out very precisely and loudly. Also I need to ask them to speak very slowly, and if they are really fooling around, I have to make them pay attention very forceful way. It feels like to interrogate somebody.
One day, in the middle of class, one of my students came up to me and she asked me to go to the bathroom. “Can I go to potty?” my student said.
I was so pissed off that she asked, because I understood ’party’. “what???” and I stared at her. She got really scared, I said to her ‘no’. I think my voice tone was really angry, at that time.
She strode to back to her chair, and she started to sob.
“I`m sorry Briana can you ask me again??”. And she said ”Can I go to the bathroom?”
It was completely my fault, so I apologized gently about why I was angry. ”I`m so sorry Briana, you can go to bathroom”, and bygones be bygones”
After she went to the bathroom, she started to nod off. ‘Oh my god !’ I could`ve been mad, but it was so cute especially for little children. I need to have a spacious mind. If she was a grown woman, I couldn`t even think about that. Anyway I don’t have to get angry what they made a mistake.
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