Tell me how you FEEL...continued

Ok, so I hand out these worksheets, after spending like the first ten minutes of class explaining, and like always have to go around and explain again to each individual student. Oh I wish I had a coteacher :/ A majority of my students had a really difficult time relating feelings to situations and would always say I am _____, because I don't know. Therapy is not a booming business in Korea, I am not even sure that it exists. Many of the students said, "but teacher, I am only one feeling, and I can not lie." But some of the responses were too humorous not to share. One girl wrote, "I am sad, because my boyfriend has three girlfriends." Apparently boys are scum even across the world! One wrote "I am sad, because my mom yell at me." Now you are probably thinking, "Lindsey, thats not funny at all, thats sad." But she went on to say "teacher, she (her mom) look like lion" and then put both hands beside her face like paws and growled in my face. One student wrote, "I am tired, because my teacher's lesson is boring." Yep, thats my class she is referring to :( However, the most ridiculous responses came from one of my 3rd grade classes. These girls are 16 in Korea, and 15 in the US. I thought the age had to do with everyone's birthday also being on January 1st. But a Korean teacher explained that at birth you are 1, they count the time in the mother's womb (which makes me nauseous total side note) so then at your U.S. "1st" birthday you are actually 2. These girls have a male homeroom teacher, who well no sugarcoating they DESPISE. I don't really understand, I like him, he is one of the few teachers that goes out of his way to talk to me. But at some level, I could see how his actions may be a "bit" smothering, and he is always talking about how disrespectful the students are, so he is probably overly authoritative or weak in class. I have not seen him interact with the students, so this is merely assumptions. (and yes I know about assumptions) Anyways, about a paragraph ago, I was going to share their thoughts with you, so I will collect mine and follow through. Some of the responses, most of which were regarding their homeroom teacher, were "Mr. **** makes me feel sick, because he looks like a dog." Mr. **** makes me feel dirty, because he is dirty." "Mr. **** makes me mad, because I told him that he is so ugly and he mad at me." These comments continued and were on about 1/3 of a class of 34. Know being the social worker that I am, I explored the dirty comment, and she literally meant he looks dirty as in unclean. So at the end of every class, I would walk around asking each student "How are you?" and half of them responded "I am fine, thank you and you?" Two lessons teacher (me) learned: my teaching is completely ineffective and never ask a korean middle school girl to share her TRUE feelings. If you are feeling bad for me, STOP, all in all this was one of my good days of teaching :)