Jon: Andy Kim Story

As I said in the previous post, Andy Kim is a superb student who works extremely hard, behaves extremely well, and speaks extremely well.  In addition to this fine qualities, Andy Kim is always willing to help me out by explaining certain expressions to other students in Korean or explaining to me certain Korean traditions or customs.  

Anyways, I had mentioned something about the students in C-class (a classroom next door to ours) and so Andy Kim raised his hand.  This is an almost exact dialogue of what then transpired:

Me:  "Yes Andy Kim?"

Andy Kim:  "Teacher, you know what c-class mean?"

Me:  "No, what Andy Kim?"

Andy Kim:  "It means (insert f-bomb) you, means (insert f-bomb) you!"

Me:  "What???"

Andy Kim:  "Yes teacher, it means (insert f-bomb) you"  

*At  this point he is also flicking me off and clearly excited to explain something to me

Me:  "Andy Kim you can't say that!!  Get out your stamp sheet and go to the corner right now!"

Andy Kim:  "But teacher it means (insert f-bomb) you" 

*He now has tears welling up in his eyes because a) he's losing stamps and b) he has to sit in what i proclaimed the "baby corner"

Poor Andy Kim, he was just trying to help but I was so scared that other kids would ask me what that word meant.  The next day, his mother called the korean teacher to formally apologize to me and that Andy Kim would also apologize as well.  The minute my foot was outside the door I couldn't help but laugh and immediately looked for the first teacher I saw to tell the story.