The Wise Children

This we are administering speaking tests to the seventh graders.  The speaking test goes like this: you sit down opposite myself and receive a card with five phrases on it.  Like this,

1. 시 간 은  돈 이 다    (Shee gahn eun   don ee dah)

That's only one phrase but you get the point.

And if you're a good and studious seventh grader you will say to me 'Time is money'.

Now the students here get wound up pretty good before any test, but a speaking test is especially tense.  It's them and me and a list of forty English proverbs they are supposed to have memorized.  I really shouldn't then have been surprised when I walked into my first class after lunch and was greeted by forty frantic girls screaming, "TEACHA TEACHA ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY LET BEEGONES BE BEEGONES GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGE IT IS NO USE CRYING OVER SPLIT MILK BEGGARS CAN BE CHOOSERS A STONE CAN KILL TWO BIRDS LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP"