임주은 in the Korea Times

One of my 4th grade students had an article published in the Learning Times section of the Korea Times. She wrote an article as a Junior Reporter, it's pretty cool. There are a few errors, but she did an awesome job! Since you have to have an account I have copied and pasted the article here for anyone interested. I'm pretty happy for her (Jennifer) because she's only in 4th grade and has an article in a national newspaper AND I'm her teacher!

삼릉초등학교 3학년 (5기) 임주은 (Samreung Elementary School--Lim Ju Eun)

I wanted to change into another person again, and it really came true. I was (1)an the Samreung elementary school's musical team. Everyone on our team thought it (2)was over after doing the pre-contest and the final-contest, but it wasn't. There was still the encore musical play to do. Suseo elementary school's team won (3)first place and our team won second place. The Suseo team was going to do the encore musical play, too. 500peaple were going to watch us do it again and doing it again was a gift for me.

Like always we had to practice, (4)but I had the chicken pox, so I couldn't practice with my teammates. Luckily, I recovered from the chicken pox just one day before the encore play. I Think practicing is really fun because I can prepare for the play and I can also play with other people on our team while we practice together. Singing, dancing, acting, and playing with my teammates were fun for me.

It was the day to show my best to 500 people. Before the show, there was an important thing to do. We all had to change into the characters, or no one would know what we were doing. First, we changed our clothes. We were doing the play,'The Wizard of Oz', so the lion, tin man, and the scarecrow looked really funny. After changing our clothes, we did our makeup. (5)We didn't did it. Other people who work there did the makeup for us. I was a dwarf, so I had to wear a wig, but I never wanted to! The makeup was over. I looked at the evil witch and he looked really wicked! All of us looked weird. We did rehearsal after it

(6)While doing the rehearsal, I wasn't nervous even though there were 500 seats. It was just fun. After doing the rehearsal it was already past 12o'clock, so we ate a little bit of food for lunch. We ate stuff like Kim-Bab and Man-doo. We didn't have anything to do before the play, so we just sang a song that Suseo elementary school sings at their play for fun. Their team was doing the play 'The Magic Flute'. We looked outside the window and saw the hall, but it wasn't just an empty hall. It was full of people. We opened the window just a little. Some of the people knew it and came over to see. Next, we had to go to the bathroom. We were too scared to go out, so we went out together. In the hall, I (7)was feeling like a star.

It was time to really do it. It was different than before, because we changed some things, so I had to remember some new stuff. We turned the mike on, but I wasn't nervous The play began, but I still wasn't nervous at all, even during the play! I like to stand on the stage because of this. Also I can show what I can do. Everything was going fine(8), but at last... " Oh no!" I was so tired that I forgot to wave goodbye at the end. Luckily, it wasn't too late, so I could do it just fine. Hurray! Our team did it!

The encore play ended and everyone on our team was all tired. Some boys didn't want to do it ever again, but most of us wanted to keep doing it. We weren't just going to each of our homes (9)by this. Of course, we changed our clothes and took off the wigs, but we had time to do other things. Some of our teammates wanted to see the magic show after our turn including me, so we watched it. We could see fun things for free because we were there to do the musical play. This was much better than I thought it would be, but this was not even the end.

The funniest thing came at the end : Playing! It was almost dinner time, so we ate together. After eating together, it was time to play. The girls played in the apartment playground and the boys played in the school playground. We played and did fun things in the cold weather. At the playground six of us played for a long time, but eventually we had to say bye-bye and go to each of our homes. This was the final end of the encore musical play.

My brother loved that it was over, but I wanted to continue to do it. I think it's great. I can work and practice and play with other people. I can learn cooperation, too. I can also do the things that I can do very well and enjoy (10)it. Best of all, I can be together with other people! The musical play will be one of the best memories of my life.