They are so awesome! There’s 5 students in the class, Turbo, Gafew, An, Ninoi, and Nuee. Pretty much the coolest kids ever, especially Turbo. He’s totally my favorite (shh don't tell the other kids). First off his name is TURBO! How cool is that? He lives up to his name too. Super smart, really funny, basically a little ball of charisma. It was really neat because I met him before I ever started teaching. On the second day of school there weren’t any classes just assemblies and stuff and a bunch of kids were in a room playing this like group rock paper scissors. I noticed that there was one little boy (Turbo) not playing who looked kind of sad. I went up to him and started doing rock paper scissors with crazy awesome sound effects (boom! Pow! Aaagggh! Etc) and exaggerated hand motions. We’re having a blast and before I know it half the room is watching us. Pretty sure that’s not usual behavior for teachers in Thailand but it was still great. We played a few other games before the kids had to go but Turbo came up to me after and said thanks in perfect English.
The next day I walk into my first class and there’s Turbo! It was so great because we’d already made a connection outside of the classroom. Plus he loves English. His English is easily better than most of the adults at my school. The other third graders are really great too! They seriously pick up the material faster than my eighth graders. I was teaching them school subjects and they were having a hard time pronouncing the “th” on math. So I had them stick out there tongue, make a scary face as they said it, and exaggerate the “th” so much that they kind of spit. It totally helped their pronunciation but now whenever they have math class they say “I don’t like maatttttthhhh!” Let’s hope their teacher doesn’t speak any English. Haha
I also taught them to say “I love English!” Hey I’m not above propaganda. After this they started saying “I love teacher Colleen!” all on their own. So great! Turbo always says “I miss you!” whenever I leave the class too. And I didn’t even have to use indoctrination. J I did teach them how to say “what’s up!” They say it all day long, complete with little gangsta hand motions. Like I said, coolest kids ever. It's pretty nuts how attached you can get in just a couple months. I'm really going to miss those kids.
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