A boy named Iris

I just finished my first week of work in South Korea, so after we finished work on Friday night, my director and the other teachers took me out for a dinner to a sit-on-the-floor Korean barbecue type of restaurant. As you can see in the picture, in Korea they like to have a lot of side dishes. This was the first round of several for the four of us at our table (there were 8 of us in total). I made it clear from the time of my arrival in Korea that I don't eat seafood, so we had beef and they kept bringing it. Most of the side dishes were vegetables of one kind or another. Some of the food was not my favourite, but most of it was excellent.
As for my first week of work, it went quite well. I'm still trying to get my head around it all, but I had a pretty good time. My director and the other teachers are great, although I'm the only guy working at the school, so we'll see how that goes.
Most of the kids are pretty good, also. Some of them are a handful, but I'll figure out how to handle those ones soon enough.
The school has all of the kids choose an English name when they start, so fortunately I don't have to learn a ton of Korean names that I can't pronounce. However, this means that some of the kids have rather "interesting" English names. I've got a little girl named Cutie, a boy named Lucifer, and a BOY named Iris. I thought the kids were just joking when I called the name Iris and they pointed to him. But they weren't. It took everything I had not to laugh. I pointed it out to the director and the other teachers that Iris was a girl's name, but apparently he had chosen the name at a previous school. I hope for his sake he never travels abroad using that name.