Farm Field Trip

Hello once again! So on Friday November 5th we had a really really good fieldtrip! This was the first field trip that was actually kind of cool and not just a photo op.

Here is my class after we got off the bus from a 40 minutes ride. Everyone is a little fuzzy. The weather was really weird and spooky. It was foggy and chilly.

For our fieldtrip we went to a farm near the border to North Korea. The first thing we did was pick sweet potatoes! We gave all the 5 and 6 year olds sharp hoe like diggers and we let them loose to dig up sweet potatoes in the dung/dirt.

Here is Sally in her really pretty pink coat kneeling in the mud digging up potatoes. She got the most of anyone in our class!
Here is Daniel doing the famous Korean squat and trying to smile for my picture.
Here are Leo and Jack searching intently for more potatoes. Even the littlest rootish potatoes made them super duper happy!
Here is Jack with a good one!
Ha Won is good at smiling for my pictures!
After we picked sweet potatoes we drove a bit further and let our kids run around the forest gathering Chestnuts! It was so nice getting a little bit of fresh air and exercise!

After that we stopped at a small park and played in the leaves and ate a nice snack, and then we headed back to school for lunch and relaxation before afternoon classes!!!

Well that was wonderful and now I will also talk about this weekend!

Halloween

Ok post 2 tonight! Halloween!!!!

So for Halloween my school required all of the teachers to dress up. I decided to be Kim Bap which is basically Korean Sushi. KimBap does not usually have raw fish. I was standard KimBap which is cucumber, egg, carrot, fermented radish, and ham. All rolled in a roll of rice covered in seaweed.

KimBap comes in tonnnnnns of flavors. My personal favorite is Tuna Kimbap (not raw tuna, like canned tuna). There is also Kimchi Kimbap and Salad Kimbap! Plus a million more.

So anyways, Halloween isn't very big in Korea, but you can still buy some standard costumes. KimBap was not one of the standard choices so I spent wayyyyy too much time crafting my kimbap costume.

Here is Laura in my bed crafting her costume. My bed looks like a craft box exploded.

Laura was creating a Jellyfish costume out of an umbrella. Yeah pretty sweet!
This was my crafting area/desk/kitchen table/ only surface in my apartment. I made quite a mess and used a looooot of hot glue.
Here is the finished result on Halloween day at school!!!!!!! The Korean Moms and all the Korean people who saw it when I went out LOVED my costume and took pictures with me. I also had read seaweed in my hair and chopsticks in my bun! hahahah
Here is Daniel, The magician, and his Mom at the parade in front of HomePlus (kind of like target).
This is Jack with his Mom! He was a Power Ranger. His Mom is one of the nicest Moms in my class!
This is Sally bo Bally! She was a pretty pretty princess!
This is Grace and her Grandmother! She was a lovely Pumpkin Witch!
This is Shawn and his Mom. He was a magician. He was obviously more interested in his candy than the picture!
This is Jenny with our new student Ha Won! She was Princess Belle!
This is Leo and he was a freaking adorable pumpkin. He is pretty naughty and quite pervert!
The next night was the real halloween celebration. Kelly and Heidi (teachers from my school) had a fun party with Jello Shots! This is my friend Tom dressed as Sailor Venus (from the anime show Sailor Moon)
The Koreans went CRAZY for his costume. When we went out later that night he had to pose for around 100 photos!
Here is Devon as Sailor Mars and I missed taking a picture of Sailor Jupiter! They made such cool costumes!
Kelly was Andy Samberg from the digital short on SNL about a Boombox. She made her sweet boombox!
This is Ashley from my school as Marilyn Monroe of course.
Halloween turned out to be very fun and I was really happy with how my costume turned out. I now own a really time consuming Kimbap costume. I have no idea what to do with it! hahahahah

Ok well Halloween was last weekend and now I will post about this week!

October Field Trip

Hello! I am a bad blogger as usual so I am going to make up for it. This is the first of 3 posts I will be doing tonight....but you will probably read it last hahaha.

So in October we went on one of our "wonderful" field trips. We went to this park that had no grass or areas for little kids to play with. It was literally a photo op and it was not that great of a time sadly! So here are all the photos we had to take to show how much fun we had to the parents!!!!!

These are my babies, but Grace was sick so I only had 5.
Leo, Sally, Shawn, Jack and Daniel!

Sally being the little doll she always is!
Me and my babies!!!!
Jack getting manhandled by Daniel!
Trooping around the park : )
Snack time on the sidewalk. My class and Red class!
The final photo op! The red leaves were too good to resist. You can tell the kids love this!

I am not the biggest fan of my school's field trips. Korea is all about presentation and image. We have the kids pose and take lots of pictures and they don't get enough time to just run around and be kids.

October went quickly and I was very busy at work. My class is really improving and at the end of October I got a new student!!!! Ha Won is her name and she is very smart!