Sunday, March 25, 2007

Chapter 18: "The Young Korean Entrepreneurs"

I hope I spelled that word right.

Anyways, an interesting story about one of our friends' students elsewhere in another English school. Apparently there is a girl, about 16 years old, who has a "list" of 300 bad English words that she gets from the internet. She won't say where she gets them, which is how her little ploy works.

Every day (?) she brings three new words to school, and auctions them off. The other kids pay, because they don't know where she got them (I guess google isn't as utilized here). I'm not quite sure of the details, but three students pay to get her words, then other students pay them to teach them. I'm not sure who is making more of a killing here, but I give them props, despite the nefarious nature of their business.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hahahaha! I laughed out loud when I read this. It sounds like something I would have done as a young child, but not now. I'm a mature adult. Right.
How was your birthday? Your cake looked good -- at first glance I thought the mocha swirl was a dead snake or eel. Heh. Heh. Heh.

Anonymous said...

the question is... are they truly "bad" words... or is it just a hoax. kill the business with a little tippint point.