You Should Be In Pictures, Dahling . . .

I came into school and the students were excitedly reading something. I assumed it was a comic book, a magazine with the hot Korean pop stars, something of interest to 10 and 11 year olds. As I walked by, they grabbed me, “Teacher, Teacher! Look!” They were holding a flyer that had been inserted into all the newspapers in Daegu. For Kate School. With all the teachers’ passport pictures and where we attended university. Of all the pictures I’ve provided the school, well, passport pictures just aren’t that flattering. No exception here. But 2.5 million citizens of Daegu now know what I look like. I’ll let you know when the requests for autographs begin. . .

But wait, there’s more. Last Friday evening a couple of the listening teachers were supposed to do a CD of common English phrases for the students to listen to at home. There was a misunderstanding about the time of recording and one of the teachers wasn’t there when the recording commenced. One of the Mr. Kims asked if I would fill in. Oh, yeah! Voiceover work – you know I’m putting that on my resume. It’s the next best thing to being a back up singer in a rock and roll band.

So Chanta and I did the recording. About 1 1/2 hours worth. But it was fun. We were in a real (sort of) studio. We got to wear headphones and speak into microphones. And none of the other teachers could have had as much fun as we did. One of the phrases was, “What are you wearing?” When Chanta started to read it, she bust out laughing, at which point I did too. Mr. Kim looked at us – Why are you laughing? Well, it’s just that, well, normally when you hear that phrase it’s over the phone with someone breathing heavily on the other end. . . I don’t think Mr. Kim thought it was funny.