Things I did: November 5th- November 7th

I had a very busy weekend.

Friday

I attended my school's talent show. Classes were cancelled for the day and all of their parents came to watch.
Before the show, they were soooo hyped up. I was just sitting in the hall, attempting to eat some yoghurt, but they kept jumping on me and going through my purse.

And now, for the talents...

My 5th graders drumming.

My second graders' talent was being adorable:

My fourth graders danced to 2ne1, a Korean pop group.

My 6th graders did a Little Red Riding Hood skit. The song cracks me up. "I'm little Red Riding Hood. I want to play with my friends, but I always listen to my mother. Good little good little girl, good little Red Riding Hood!"
They practiced that dance in my classroom every day after school for a month, so by the talent show I knew it pretty well.

The talent show was a little long, but they were all so cute that it was worth it. After school, I met up with my friend Linda to go to a farmers' market in our neighborhood that sets up every Friday:

We got lots of sweet potatoes. After that, I stopped by George's place to play with his kitten, Molieoh:

Finally, we all met up around 8 to set off some fireworks. In the U.K., the 5th of November is Bonfire Night, so David wanted to celebrate here.

Saturday

Shalini came to visit from Ulsan. At first, I was a little worried about entertaining her, since Nonsan is so rural  compared to the Ulsan/ Busan area. We had a lot of fun though. During the day we just went to lunch, wandered around Home Plus, watched ANTM, and napped. We also hiked to the top of the hill behind my house. It's really pretty up there now that the leaves have changed colors.

She makes me look like a giant.

For dinner we had kimbab, then we met up with George, David, and Hayan to go bar-hopping.

At the log cabin bar.

Fruity soju drinks.

David refusing to do the standard peace sign.

Sunday

Shalini and I were pretty tired today, but we were craving Western food, specifically CostCo food. So we took the train to Daejeon and had lunch.

It's comforting that CostCo is the same everywhere in the world.

I had a hotdog.

After lunch we went to the bus terminal. Shalini got on the bus to Ulsan, and I headed back to Nonsan. Shalini and I are taking our vacations at the same time (last week of January), and we're thinking about going to Japan for a few days.

My Students being Adorable

Here are some recent pictures and video of my students. My favorite part of teaching is the 1st and 2nd grade class-- They are so cute and easy to entertain. Their favorite game is Duck, Duck, Goose, although it always ends with at least one child hurt. No matter how many times I tell them to lightly tap their friends' heads, they think it's funnier to whack as hard as they can. Oh well. As long as they're laughing.

Here are some pictures from last week, where we talked about the letter A and "I like/ don't like____."

Katie. "I like aunt. I don't like alligator."

Ellie likes and dislikes lots of things.

Marie likes apples and aunts. I don't think any of the kids like alligators.

Kristy and Kayleigh. Kristy is terrified of me and normally won't participate, but this time she actually did. It turns out she draws really well.

Explaining a game. As usual, they hear, "Blahblahblahblahblah," until my co-teacher translates.

Playing the Rock, Paper, Scissors train game.

Richard is the my only 1st grade boy. Needless to say, the girls gang up on him a lot. He loves it though.

Richard trying to pick up Marie.

He looks mad, but he was cracking up.

Alexa: "I don't like arm." I was running out of "A" words and in desperation added "arm" to the list.

As you can see, I mostly take pictures of my 1st and 2nd graders because they are adorable and well behaved. Normally I don't get a chance to take pictures in 3rd or 4th grade classes because I have to keep an eye on them. The other day I took a couple pictures during the break between my back to back 3rd grade classes. The kids decided they wanted to limbo.

Chuna, my newest 3rd grader. He is pretty mean and I keep trying to kick him out of class.

Henry, one of my former bad boys. He has been really nice lately though.

Kevin, a headache, and Charles, a sweetheart.

Gracey, probably the strangest kid I have. She rarely talks and mostly just growls/ hisses/ purrs at me.

Xavier, my favorite 3rd grader. He says, "OK TEACHA!" to everything I say.

Daejeon ZooLand

Here are some pictures from the zoo this weekend. So much fun!

On the Viking Ship ride.

Safari bus, where we drove through the bear, lion, and tiger cages.

Flower Land.

Me, Dan, Linda, Hayan, George, and Mark.

Gruesome bunnies. They were all missing ears and/or legs.

Man dangling his child over the vicious rabbits.

Sad baby monkey.

Pretty fountain.