Though it’s hard to tell from her exotic looks and true American accent, she was a huge Korean culture-a-holic and the picture of T.O.P on her desk would have screamed that.
With a slightly flushed face,looking alternately at a recorder and interview papers, she handled all of the questions carefully, every now and then grinning at tough ones to answer.
Michelle had walked a bit hard way to become an English teacher in a foreign country. Until deciding to come to Korea, she spent many days agonizing over it, and one of the things that held her back was her family. It was the hard one for her family to allow her to live in other parts of the world alone. However, many Korean friends of hers, Korean foods caputring her tastes, and unique Korean culture led her to Korea finally.
After having arrived at Korea, she adapted well in a new lifestyle and culture despite her family's concerns. Being excited over the Korean drama "City Hunter" and her favorite K-pop group "Big Bang," it was apparent to evertone that she was almost Korean, but she said she had a long way to go. " I think communication with local people is the most important thing. So I guess I'll be like a Korean when I become good in Korean and communicate with Koreans naturally."
She got used not only to her new life but also to her job as a teacher. At first, as a native speaker, she had a lot of troubles being close to her students because they were scared of her. But staring the same culture like K-pop formed intimacy between her and the students. She smiled saying that sometimes a few students came up to her, gave Big Bang stickers and tried to use English to tell her news of Big Bang.
An excerpt from my school's newspaper about me, the foreign native teacher.
I'm DYING LOL.
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