sometimes trying to teach seven little boys is like trying to keep worms in a can. but i think it's really interesting to see the way they interact with each other.
for example during class they all get along really well and always look out for each other and play with each other. but a recurring scene is: class has just ended and i am just cleaning up from our activities or something, and one of kids comes running into the room and hides behind me. I begin to ask him what the matter is when i am interrupted by a crowd of screaming boys running into the room holding fake spiders and waving them in his face.
me: stop stop,
boys: ahhh!! rawr! (jump and shove spiders in his face)
scared boy: (buries his face in my t-shirt)
me: stop it, i said stop
(scared boy runs away and everyone runs after him)

as everyone is going home
academy owner: (angry)why are you treating your friend like that?
boy: but he's not my friend
academy owner: okay, why are you treating your hyung like that?
boy: it's funny!

and then the next day during class they are getting along perfectly, and after class the same thing happens again.


or like today, we were trying to play a game when two boys begin fist fighting over something. they are getting pretty angry and violent, and i try to pull them apart and say "stop it, stop"
other boys: hey, teacher said stop!
other boys go run to the office to tell the academy owner, who tells another person, who goes to get angry at the two boys. suddenly the two boys look at each other and laugh mischievously and team up to run away and hide from her. and it's like nothing ever happened.

or how the loudest boy in the class who is always telling everyone what to do, will break down and cry when he drops his lollipop on the ground.

i like how kids have no rules, and no defenses, and they just have their heart and their emotions out there all the time. they will always be very honest with you.