Happy Belated Halloween

Okay, I know Halloween was like forever ago, but life has been very busy here. So here are my Halloween pictures. For Halloween, we were only doing it for the kinder kids. There were theme rooms, which was great because Kalee and I spent the entire morning doing face painting.

This is my lovely costume. Anywhere or everywhere in Korea there are women who dress like this and promote a specific product. They always wear these gloves and the leg warmers that I have on.















This is my classroom all done up for Halloween. I love having
my ownclassroom. Last year, Halloween stuff was difficult to find.
Luckily, just before I left, the dollar store was just starting to
sell Halloween stuff. This was one of the items I purchased.
Something like that here would have cost me around $5 to $10.




Watch Out or the spider will get you!!!














This is the cemetery that I did with my kids. We all brainstormed together, me more then them, and came up with good ways to die. It was a lot of fun.





This is my friend, Beth's classroom,
whose them was the Three Witches
from Macbeth. It was turned out really well.














This is a pic of all the teachers - most of us dressed up.
Back Row (LtoR): Kalee (scarecrow), Peter, Jason,
Ian (Frankenstein)
Front Row: Andrea, Me, Beth (vampire), Sharlane (pirate),
Julie (Cat - meow) and Ben





Sharlane's Room







Ben's Room








Kalee's Room

Here are my kid's and the ways they died last Halloween.

Carol, who is Belle and can be a real
princess when she wants to be.


How she died:
An elephant thought she was a peanut and ate her.





James - Harry Potter







How he died:
He was a King Cobra’s dinner.

To explain this what a King Cobra is - the kids make a cobra with their hands and they do it incessantly, especially James. So they thought this was really funny when I suggested it.






Jason - my little devil,
who is a perfect angel in class.





How he died:
My teacher threw me out the window.





Jenny, she is sleeping beauty.
She looked so beautiful, I was overwhelmed.





How she died:
She was eaten by a Venus Fly Trap.





Lina was a princess.







How she died:
She fell into the toilet and drowned.




Woo-Jae was a bat - I had to plead with him to put the hood on.



How he died:
A piano fell on his head.




Theresa, one of the more recent
additions to my class, was a flamingo.






How she died:
She fell off a ladder.





Yeseul was a witch.







How she died:
My dad pushed me into the water and a crocodile ate me.

Costume photos that are MIA:

Ryan who was a character from Digemon or Pokemon died as a result of a chicken pushing him off a ladder.

Sonia, who was Snow White, died as a result of a rabbit thinking she was a carrot and it ate her.



So that was a picture by picture account of Halloween. The kids really enjoyed it and so did the teacher's. It was the first and only Monday I think I ever enjoyed getting up for.

The gist of the Korean language - A long run-on whine.

You know you have been here too long when...today we were talking and we came to the title's conclusion today. We had a good laugh and I thought I would share this with everyone.

So, not much is going on. A few of my friends have returned home and a few more have arrived for their sentence - just kidding. Work has been going well and the kid's abilities and their understanding have really improved. So I have a bunch of pictures from a picnic we went on back in October.

Our school had a play day back in October, the school took all the kindy kids on a picnic to World Cup Stadium. It was a great day for a picnic, but then again I should have known better. It was a hagwon organized picnic, which means that the kid's aren't allowed to run around, enjoy being outside and have fun. There was some fun, but the kid's don't know any different, so they don't know what they are missing.

We got all the kid's organized and onto the bus. The ride over was a lot of fun. I corrupted my kids and got them to sing "Everywhere we go". Those of you who have been to camp will be familiar with the song. Unfortunately, I have not sung this song in a long time, so I forgot how it ended. The kid's had a chance to be loud, so they had a lot of fun. Then I got them to pretend they were on a roller coaster and put their hands in the air and scream everytime we went around the a hairpin bend. The kids and I had a great time, but eventually got told to stop doing that.

These are all the kids sitting, waiting to get on the bus. These are all the kindy kids are my school, give or take a few.

The kids on the bus make faces at the camera.
L to R: Theresa, Carol, Lina and Sonia

This is Jenny and Ryan.

Woo-Jae (foreground) and Jason (background)

The kid's are set up in their teams, this is the white team. My kid's are sitting right in the front. Carol's sitting in front there, with James in the blue hat and Jason (brown hat) right behind him.

Here are some pictures from the egg and spoon race and the tug of war. There was a teacher tug of war and at this time I don't have any pictures :(
Peter, our head teacher, while demonstrating how to do the egg and spoon race bailed on the grass - flew threw the air and landed hard on his rear. I wish I had a pic of it, it was absolutely hysterical.

This is Julie with her kids, she is one of the newer teachers.

This is Woo-Jae doing his best to keep the egg on the spoon.

James - a face only a mother could love .

My friend Beth and I.
I must say that I love my flip-out (screen) canon camera!

Woo-Jae and I

So this was the picnic. We came, ate and attempted to let the kids be kids for a while. I got in trouble for using sidewalk chalk, so I was a little miffed. Overall, it was a gorgeous day and we all had fun. It was way better then being in a classroom.