I spent this past weekend in the Korean town of Osan on the outskirts of Seoul. I was part of an English camp for Semyeong Computer high school. The following is one of the highlights of the weekend.
As any English teacher worth his or her salt will tell you, the best method for teaching the language is to have your students make t-shirts. No, "make t-shirts" is not code for "learn new vocabulary", "practice conversation skills", or anything else that could possibly make more sense.
"This is bery special t-shirt! You cannot buy with your money!" barked the director of the camp. And on that note we handed out the plain white t-shirts and small tubes of paint found at any number of local retailers.
The students were instructed to paint pictures of something from English camp on their very special t-shirts. These instructions eventually morphed into "please write 3 English words on your t-shirt."
After 2 hours, the top 3 best designs emerged in the first ever Did You Really Put That on Your Very Special T-Shirt contest...
3rd place: "Pirates...breaking free" (What?)
2nd place: " We're cookies" (Ummm.....ok.)
...and 1st place goes to the four girls each with a large letter on their shirt...
"U", "K", "F", and "C". (Really, I'm not making this up.)
I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to stand for, but at least they used English letters.
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