Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The homework

Okay, I promised to share how Min Joon's happiness assignment turned out. When I asked him about it, he asked, "I have to write about kind people or happy people?" I said "happy," and he quickly changed a word in his paper. Apparently I am not very good at checking for comprehension.



Translation: "I think happy people is all Christians. I don't know why, but I think so. And I think skinheads (in Russia) are very unhappy people because skinheads hit or kill black people in Hitler's birthday. I think this is very strange."

I'm not sure what to make of this assignment considering he mixed up "kind" and "happy." I wonder if they are similar words in Korean?
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  1. AnnieApril 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    That is odd.... Maybe he wrote about kind people, then figured - what the heck? Oddly, his thought do seem to "work" with either adjective. Handwriting work might be in order.

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