"Is Teacher Daniel coming back?"

This morning my coworker and I had a mini-American Idol party. They showed the live finale this morning in Taipei and yes, we got up early (the show started at 8am). It was a great performance and I'm happy that Scotty won although Lauren is a great singer. We got pretty obsessed this season and my coworker goes, "Now I have nothing to look forward to" lol

I've been blogging what my students say right after I tell them that I'm leaving to go back to America because 1) it's surprising what they say and 2) their reaction makes me a little anxious. Everyone reacts differently and although I've only been teaching for 11 months, I've made good relationships with most of my students and I will be definitely sad leaving them. Now to them is a completely different story.

My crazy, young old Mon. night class now switched to Thurs. nights have been getting better. I finally am at peace with them and maybe it has more to do with the fact that I'm leaving. Anyway I told them tonight that I was going on vacation and they wanted to know who the sub was going to be.

Then I told them that I'm leaving and the boys in the class (they're only 7 students in my class) asked about Teacher Daniel who was the teacher that I replaced when I came to the school. They thought he was coming back and I said no he's in America. The girls were sad though so at least someone cared (sniff sniff) lol

When I was signing their bye-bye books, one of the students asked again about Teacher Daniel. I told him again he's in America and he wanted to know what he was doing. I told him he wanted to be a lawyer but Cody didn't understand what "lawyer" meant. (Mind you, he's only 8 years old). Then he asked if he was coming back and I said "No, he's in America and he's not coming back because he's done at this school." Cody all of a sudden asks with surprise, "Is Teacher Daniel DIED?" (Yes, bad grammar) lol He confused "done" with "die/dead". I quickly said no but it was really funny to see his expression. Oh little kids. Oh well..I'm glad they will be okay when I'm gone :)

-Chihchat