The Crabs

On the third day, I had some science project classes. One of the projects was to make a moving crab from a kit. Making the crabs required use of fine motor skills that was difficult even for adults, let alone kindergarteners. Not only that, but the crabs were just terribly designed, and could survive one, maybe two scuttles, before falling apart.

Soo-jun, one of the Korean teachers, helped me in class to make them, although neither of us could figure it out. The directions, of course, were in Korean, and one of the kids read the directions and showed me what to do.

It was kind of a disaster, but it was funny too. When I went to lunch with Jason and Andrew, I asked them "Have you guys had the crabs yet?"

They gave me a shocked look, as though I had crossed a professional boundary, and then they burst out laughing when I backtracked, and tried to rephrase the question.

I'm in Korea, and I can't even communicate properly with my fellow native speakers.