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pussycat is a real teacher.

don't tell her pops.

i began my day at starbucks.  i then moved on to mister donut.  i told my student jae mi that i really enjoyed the mister donut cups.  she told me that she had a large bag and could easily jack them.  i felt like i was back at the mecano bar in paris.

an hour after mister donut, i was at 'a twosome place.'  this seemingly konglish name for a coffee shop is actually quite appropriate, as it is a place for twosomes.  or in our case, a sixsome.  i went there with my intensive students, a class that i have grown to just adore.  i saw them for two hours a day, everyday, and i never left that class without a smile on my face.  i must say, though, after three coffee shops in a row, i was beginning to feel quite dehydrated and wondered if all the caffeine would cause me to get a lovely migraine later.

the coffee migraine was avoided, but i still had to pull through a two hour class that actually wanted to have real class, rather than a cruise-y last day in a cafe.  what began as a lesson devoted to discussing a future society turned into a lesson on korean stereotypes of america.  here goes...

when asked what my students thought about america, one student said that she thought america was a dangerous place.  i asked what she meant.  she said 'guns.'  i was then asked if my dad had a gun, a question to which i responded, 'well, he probably has about 50.'  that's america for you.  the land of freedom and lots-o-guns.  people don't really hunt in korea and the only reason they would need a gun is if they opted to kill someone.  so people just cant get guns too easily here.  the murder weapon of choice, of course, is the knife.  or, as i was informed, burning down peoples' houses while the owners are inside.

i find a gun to be a more humane way to murder someone.  but that is just my american opinion.

i was also told that old korean ladies would slap a teenage girl if she was smoking a cigarette in public.  teenage boys would not be slapped.  men can smoke in public.  women go to the tea rooms to smoke.  what the hell is the difference?

i was also informed that a western woman was slapped by an old korean person because she was wearing a slutty top that revealed her stomach.  this topic then turned into how korea is incredibly conservative and america is, er, not.  

drugs and booze were discussed.  thankfully the topic of sex was avoided.  i do believe that a couple heart attacks may have been caused if, gasp, sex and drugs and guns were discussed in the span of two hours.  i also believe that these three students will never be going to america, the land of the liberal gun-wielding, pot-smoking psychopaths.

at least we murder with guns more often than with knives.  or arson.  americans know how to be efficient.