I really didn't see this one coming. In my more advanced class we were discussing different places around the world, and I asked my students where they had traveled to outside of Korea. The United States, China, the Philippines, and Guam were a few of the answers that popped up. So then I began asking them what they did and where they went while they visited there (i.e. The Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall, palm trees, etc.) Two of the girls in the class, Monica and Alice, are cousins who happened to go Guam with each other over the summer.
ALICE: How do you say [something in Korean] in English?"
ME: I don't know
MONICA: It was like this [motions downward with her hand flat]
ME: A waterfall?
ALICE: No, no. Us up, and then down.
ME: hmmmm......
MONICA: No water; a boy then a girl.
ME: Oh, did you see other Koreans there?
MONICA: [sigh] I'll show, you look.
She grabs the board marker, and quickly draws a cliff with her and Alice on top and then a boy laying on top of a girl under a tree below.
ALICE: Loving! That's it - they were loving!
ME(quickly shaking my head): No, Alice, I meant what kind of things did you do.
ALICE: oh........
ME: Erase that picture.
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