Brothers and Sisters

Recently at my school I have become aware of all the siblings that I teach. I had no idea. At the same time it seems to make sense. There is no give away as far as family names goes (not last names as they say their family names first) seeing as there are very few of them.

There were a few students that I was well aware were siblings. One was a set of twins both of which were in the same class. Another was 2 girls that were always waiting for the other.

The one that opened the flood gates of me realizing all the siblings was me making a mistake one class. It took me a long time to remember all my students names, and I still have a lot of trouble unless I have their attendance sheet in front of me. I can match the names to the faces. My really basic and young classes I have the names down pretty good. Mostly because I can ask them what their name is as review. As is, one day I called one girl JongBin. She said "My name is YoungJu, JongBin is my sister!" I'm just glad I remembered the name that fit the face. I have made the mistake many times since as well, and I also do it on purpose sometimes because its hilarious.

After that, especially with my younger kids, I have started to find out a lot of them are siblings. SeonMi and GiJu. I used to teach GiJu a lot and then I went close to 2 months without teaching his class. In that 2 months SeonMi started taking lessons. Recently I started teaching GiJu again. Somehow I found out they were sibblings and then just went ohhh. That makes sense. I saw them outside of school together one day. Walking home from school. But they were with other kids too because school was just let out and everyone was walking home. MinKyoung and HyunKyoung I saw with their mother one day. I also started asking students what their siblings names were and figured it out from there...like SeulBi and DanBi.

JongBin and YoungJu are really cute. I should try to take their picture and post it. JongBin and I get into insult wars where we call each other different English names. Usually starts out as animals and then eventually turns to different words on the alphabet sheet. A couple of my favorites are being called cake or umbrella.