Judas, Barabas and Tom.

So I returned to my school only to find that they had changed all of our classes around without consulting us. Big shocker. They never ask us about which kids belong in which class and which kids should move up and down a level etc. Kind of a joke if you ask me, cause gee whiz, who do think knows best if the kids can communicate in English? The English speaking teachers or the ones who teach their classes in Korean? Whatever. Sorry. Rant over. 

The point of this story was supposed to be the naming ritual, for the kids who don't have English names, I get everyone to contribute an idea or two and then we strike names off one by one until the kid ends up with a name he/she (hopefully) likes. 

Usually there's a few dumb ones (one girl was almost named "hello kitty" before I came to the rescue) ...I currently have a Harry Potter, a Rufus, a Yaya and an Mp3...usually I throw in a ridiculous name or two myself just for fun to see how far they get....anyway, this one new kid, had narrowed it down to three choices: Judas, Barabas, and Tom....I eliminated Judas, but the kid chose Barabas cause he thought it sounded like "rabbit".  I must admit to finding this whole situation exceedingly humourous.  

Later on in the day, another new kid had narrowed it down to Zeus (which sounds like Juice when Koreans say it), Poseidon and Phoenix (none of which were my contributions by the way). In the end he went with Phoenix.