ESSAY COMPETITION!!

This week at school, we had an essay competition for the students to take part in. The questions is :

If you could ask one famous person one question, who and what would you ask? Why?

And here are a few entries made by my students (of course, I only pick out the best to share with you guys!)

How I picked the winners and runner-ups: The humour factor - how much they made me laugh.

WINNER: Hong (he’s one of my favourite students…and from this pic, I think you know why~ there’s not a lesson where he wouldn’t make me laugh out loud..)



I’m asking how to try is go into your brain 365 day my reason, why ask this question is we try everything nothing can’t do so we try we can change rich or study very well in my cases, I think we try to had a friend to another (WTF??) people another people think he is very good person so can change a friend so I think only in my cases I think try is best thing for our mind and body it can be hard, (I’m glad this kid put a comma…but what happened to full stops??) but we could do we want do thing can mind change to happy and mind said to me very good…so I want to ask this question.

IF ANYONE ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDS HIS ESSAY…I’LL PERSONALLY BUY YOU DINNER. HAHA BUT HE’S A CUTE KID AND I LOVE HIM EVEN IF HIS GRAMMAR SUCKS. IN FACT, HIS ENGLISH SUCKS.

RUNNER UP: Jihun (This student is actually from a lower level class, but notice how his English is much better…at least it isn’t just one super long sentence…but the content…ahhh)

If I could ask one famous person one question I would ask Michael Jackson How can you be so nice all the time?
The reason is that I want to be as nice as Michael Jackson (WTF??????)
Also, I want to dance Michael Jackson every day of my life.
This is why I want to ask Michael Jackson why he’s so very nice.

SECOND RUNNER UP: Denny

(This kid repeated the same level 3 times, but I’d say he has improved alot! But what he wrote is so typical Korean that I had to put it in…enjoy!)

If I could ask a famous person one question, I would choose Se Jong King and I would ask him this question: Why you make Korea?
The reason is I was very thankful for Se Jong King because he make us.
He also make Korea and Korean.
That’s why I would ask why make Korea.


HAHAHA!!! Hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. Really, it wasn’t difficult to pick out actual winners because so few were actually good! HAHA!!!

One more just for it’s Randomness….

I want to ask what are you do. Because it is major detail!!!! (exclamation marks’ the kid’s own!)
Also book is not correct.
So I want to check.

And when I asked him what his essay meant, he just looked at me and read his essay to me again in a very matter-of-fact way. Then he looks at me and says “That’s what it means!” and he had this look on his face like how the hell could you not understand??? Ahh….kids….they never cease to amaze me.

i happened to stumble across into fantasy land....

Okay, so today, I finally found the FOREIGN FOOD MARKET. And I bought Cheddar Cheese. !!!!!!!!!!!! No, you don’t understand.. I’m in Korea. There is no cheese here. I don’t know what Koreans eat, but they don’t have good cheese here. So for the past 7 months, I have lived a miserable life sans cheese. BUT NOT ANYMORE!! As a matter of fact, I am eating cheese right now as I am posting. It is pure bliss…. I walked into the shop, and seriously did not even get past the first aisle and there were trumpets and drums playing in my ears. My heart was thumping and my eyes were glazed. *LAAAAAAAA~~* Oats, RANCH dressing, REAL balsamic vinegar, MUESLI….these things are like gold here. OH EM GEE….I think I might’ve died and went to heaven. So what did I buy today? I bought cheese (of course!), green beans (yes! they are also a rarity here), FRESH coriander ((AAAHHH~~), instant Oats in maple syrup, and PAD THAI SAUCE…curry powder… yep! Just pure awesomeness….

when i grow up i want to be...

How can one be so satisfied with such pathetic ways? When one is young, isn’t that the time to take risks and stop all the questioning and worrying and just go for it? Yet why are we all so afraid to step into the unknown? Instead of blindly leaping into the darkness with unquavering faith, we keep wading in our puddle of comfort, waiting for disaster to take its course. What if something better is out there? What if there isn’t? What if this is as good as it gets? Then what happens to our dreams, ambitions and happiness which seemed so easily attainable when we were young? The older we get, it seems, the more they slip away. What happened to “When I grow up, I want to be…”? Why do we throw away everything we ever wanted, only to settle for something which may not even be right?

Today, at the library, I skimmed through “Who Moved My Cheese?”. I’m sure alot of you have probably read it and I think I have before in the past but forgotten about it. However, flipping through the pages, it made me think about some things. About my future… I was always unsure, uncertain..fidgety and always changing my mind. I always thought it was because I didn’t want to take the wrong path or that I am not ready to settle down. But I think it was a fear to move forward. If I never try too hard, then I’d never really fail…right? Not just with my career or studies, but also with relationships and every other aspect of my life. I stick with what is happening because I am afraid this might be it, this might be the best it’s ever gonna get. Like they say, you lost an orange, but at least you still have a mandarin?

So I had what you might call an epiphany. I don’t want to be the 50 year old crazy cat lady who’s bitter about everything in her life and wakes up to face regret everyday. I want to be the one who can tell their lifestory to a younger person and inspire them to go after their dreams. Yes…as cheesy as that sounds, that’s who I want to be.