Dupped K-Town Style

So This Friday will mark the end of the academic year for Korean Students. So that means two weeks of vacation for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well minus one day, because I have to come in to see what grade I will be teaching next school year which begins March 1. I had almost made it through my first full semester without getting in trouble, then at happened at lunch last week. My co-teacher was visiting the US with students who had won an English competition for our school.

So I was sitting down at the table, and I saw the Principal eying me. I was trying not to make eye contact, and just as I picked up my chopsticks I saw the vice-principal starting to come my direction, and he had a wary smile. So I knew the message was for me, because he gets nervous when he has to speak English. So I'm looking at him, an he's like do you want to participate int eh Principals retirement ceremony. I was like sure, because my co-teacher had already told me that I needed to attend, and that day may be a long day for us, because all the faculty and staff have to go out to eat with her. So I assumed at the most they just wanted me to say a few words or read a peom in English or something.

Then I saw the surprised look on his face and th surrounding teachers, and he turns to the Principal, and is like she said yes. So, he then says do you want to do ...., but I couldn't make it out. I was hungry and mins away from my black bean noodles (which i love), and i had asked him to repeat it a couple of times, and the other teacher was trying to help to, but it was just so loud in the cafeteria. So, I broke my own rule, and was just like ok.

Then everyone started smiling, and the Principal comes over, and his like do you know these two songs (which she starts to hum). One is in Korean and the other is in English, and I was like no. She was like not eve the second one (Annie Laurie), and she was determined to keep singing it to me, until how recognized it, and I was like yeah sure. I just wanted to eat my black bean noodles. Then the other teacher was like you will sing those two songs at the ceremony. I was uh, wait, oh snap. Apparently the vice-principal was trying to tell me I would be in a choir. So I was like, ok as long as I don't have to do no solos ill be alright.