What Children See

Hello Brocolli-Teacher!

Teacher, you have small face.

We play a "True or False" game with the students every Monday and one of the questions is always: "True or False- Shawn-teacher has a perm". Most kids will answer "true" because if you are Korean and you have curly hair, you probably had a perm. Thus, for two weeks now I have been nicknamed "brocolli-teacher" although I would say my hair is much more cabbage-like.

Students tell Melodie multiple times a day that she has a small face. At first she was offended, but we have come to realize that having a small face is very beautiful and very desirable in Korea. Korean women can pay 10,000,000 won to have plastic surgery to make their faces smaller. The surgery involves breaking every bone in their face. Last week a rumor went around the school that Melodie's boyfriend was (U.K.) Shaun because she has the smallest face of the female teachers and he has the smallest face of the male teachers.

Little did they know that she was dating a melon-head!

Jamie, one of the Korean teachers at our school, measured that my body is approx. 5 times the size of my head- which is average. But Mel's body is 6 1/2 times the size of her head, which is makes her very very sexy in the la la land of Kimchi and Tomato Banks. I am, of course, feeling a little jealous.

And how many heads tall are you?