Friday, 20 March 2009

Another New Pencil Case


The variety of pencil cases that my Korean elementary students have is amazing; it's a very big industry here . . . pencil cases to promote kids' animation characters, pencil cases with games (a teacher's nightmare), cutsie "Hello Kitty" pencil cases. But this one yesterday was new to me, though of course I recognized it right away: an American licence plate from the state of Illinois. Of course the student had no idea what it was, so I tried to explain. A rather good example of buying "English" products for their appearance and not for their meaning . . .

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