Twice I almost threw-up
Situation 1: Snot Rocket
I was teaching a class a while ago and the students were diligently working in their books. Out of nowhere a little girl flapped her lips by blowing air through them while trying to keep them closed. It reminded me of a time when a football coach named Steve Spurrier did this and I laughed. Since then, the girl constantly flaps her lips then looks to me to see if I laugh. I now tell her not to do it, but she still does.
Yesterday, the girl tried to flap her lips, but instead snot shot out of her nose. Snot was all over her mouth and chin. I began to gag. She saw me gagging and began to laugh hysterically with the above mentioned snot still all over the place. This made me gag more, and she in turn laughed more. It was a disgusting cycle.
Situation 2: I opened my mind, and my brain almost fell out
Tonight at school my middle school students got to have a party. They had very difficult tests at their middle school for the past few days, so my director thought it would be good if we just ate some food and played games. The students and I were playing games when the director came in and gave each of us some food. One dish I recognized as a delicious food named tapokea. I did not recognize the second dish. It looked almost like sausage. So far I have tried every food put in front of me. There have only been a few things I haven't liked. I began to eat the sausage-like stuff and the taste was not very good. After a few bites, I decided in my mind, "This will be my last piece." It was one piece too late.
I placed the food in my mouth and began to chew. I was unpleasantly surprised to find a bone in the meat. Now, Koreans find it very insulting to spit food out once it is in your mouth. So I unwisely bit through the bone. I did realize that my attempting to eat bone was futile until I chomped the bone at least twenty times. I had a mouthful of bone shards that were still clinging together with bone marrow, fat, or ligament.
I asked the kids, "What is this?" I don't know why I asked this at this moment, but I did.
One kid said, "It's beaver."
I said, "No, really. What is it?"
Then another kid said, "Really, teacher. It's liver."
All the nastiness I've always associated with liver filled my mouth. I knew I needed the chunk of liver out of my mouth before the previous pieces I had eaten decided to join it. Koreans don't use napkins, so I had nothing to spit it into. So I dashed for the bathroom. I was stung when I remembered that we only have actual towels in the bathroom, and no paper towels. At least I was in the place to be when I up-chucked. Then I noticed the window. It was open. I grabbed the food from my mouth and tossed it. I know this was a bad thing to do, but I panicked.

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