troublemaker

sometimes, my students are too funny! the other night, we were going over a sentence with the word troublemaker in it. i caught the class clown, won joon, drawing a funny face on the back of his paper. he put another student's name, alice, on it, and teased her with his drawing, completely unsuspecting that i'd look up at that exact moment. so, i wrote his name on the board and made an example of him.

"class," i said, "a troublemaker is someone that makes trouble. now, see what won joon has done? (i held up the drawing for dramatic effect!) yes, this type of thing is what a troublemaker does. so, won joon, is a troublemaker!" the class laughed and i was smiling too.

but the best thing is that won joon had a brilliant comeback. he said, "no teacher, i'm a happymaker!" i lost it and busted out laughing along with all my students.