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10/20/07

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Categories: ...and Takes On, Korea

Transgender

Setting: English classroom.

Time: 6th grade class.

Problem: Listening activity (listen, draw the line matching the picture to the correct number) featured a male picture but female voice.

Me, just pointing it out because it was funny: Boys and girls, did you hear that? The voice is female, but look at the picture!

Student, very matter-of-factly: Transgender.

Me, surprised: What?

Student: Transgender. You know, boy girl? Girl boy?

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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