More Student Writing, in its Strangest Form and its Most Sincere

So now having had a couple weeks of writing assignments, I have received a full range of content from my high level 2nd graders: wombats, unrequited love, Antarctica, love letters, mock letters to parents apologizing for their childish behavior, love of meat, etc. However the following has been the most random so far:

In dream, I am Coca cola chairman, so I am very rich. I think that Coca cola's all officer know the way of make coca cola but they didn't know so I tell to them, but My Action follow to become bankrupt. WOW No. 1 is PePSI!!!*

*grammar and capitalization are all true to the original

I also run 3 club classes after school, with two separate leveled classes meeting twice a week and one reading club that meets on Wednesday (we're reading Alice in Wonderland). Today I met with my higher leveled students and we mainly worked on writing. I taught them the word "ideal," and then asked them to tell me what their ideal boyfriend/girlfriend would be like, in both personality and looks.

Most of my girls wrote about their prince charming, and then one boy casually dropped that he just may like guys more than girls. He began his paragraph saying that he hasn't really put much thought into girlfriends and then listed some things that would be nice. And then admitted that he may just like guys as much if not more than girls, and added that if he did have a boyfriend, tall and handsome would be good. Oh and smart. Smart would be perfect.

He's one of my most challenging, b/c he is both one of my smartest and one of my most aloof and enigmatic students. He stopped writing and so I asked him to keep writing, and that's when he told me his thoughts. He said that he didn't have any more thoughts on girlfriends b/c he sort of doesn't like girls and finds guys easier to get along with. So I asked him to tell me why. He wrote a couple more sentences and stated that maybe he was supposed to have been born a girl. There was something very sincere and casual about his writing, despite the structure still possessing that certain Korean awkwardness embedded in the grammar. And both his writing and the words that came from his mouth possessed an incredibly unapologetic and frank voice. I just hope that Korean society doesn't rip that from him. My heart goes out to this kid, I just hope he will find a way to be himself and live happily in a country as potentially unforgiving and unrelenting as Korea.