After the initial post earlier this month regarding the wasps, I realized that the blog went rather quiet. I am here to remedy that. We've been up to the usual work and play, still rather uneventful though due to the cold weather. I suppose that's kind of sad in the sense that February is a somewhat exciting month for us. February is, of course, Valentine's Day and our one year wedding anniversary is coming up on February 24th. We also received a package from my family the day before Valentine's Day which was a pleasant surprise. Thank you!
Valentine's Day is interesting here in the sense that it is celebrated in the same way the Japanese do. For Valentine's Day the girls/women buy chocolate to give to the special guy(s) in their life, but it is not reciprocated until White Day on March 14. It's even more commercial than the states in that sense, but it's an interesting concept. Valentine's Day wasn't terribly interesting and wasn't really even celebrated at our hagwon. Zach and I just celebrated by buying each other our favorite kind of Pepero (strawberry for him and Nude for me).
I hadn't really anticipated or planned for the holiday for my class, so I used some of the paper from the art kids floating around and made my own. They might not be the most exciting, but they turned out cute and were easy to make. I already spend enough money on these kiddos as is, so handmade valentines were easy peasy and kind of fun. :)
I decided to attempt to draw some of the words on the word search, ignore my awkward cuddling. My family probably recognizes the heart stickers up in the top left corner of my board!
James' mother send chocolates and candy for all the kids in the class, and some for me too! You can see the kids in the background eating lunch.
We've also been just working through the month and eagerly awaiting news about the new teacher that will be joining us and the upcoming March schedule. Things are going to be all scrambled around and some of the class times are being tweaked, so it should be interesting. Even our Korean teacher isn't really sure exactly how things are going to work just yet.
February also means that it's time to prepare for graduations of all sorts, and that includes some of our kindy kids. What does that mean for us? That means it's play season! Yes, we get to do our own reenactments of plays with our kids. My class is doing Stone Soup, Zach's class is doing some sort of play involving finding a dinosaur, the elementary kids are doing Hansel and Gretel, and the small class of kindy kids is doing a musical number. All I can say is that this is quite the venture and it's frustrating. I would be in major trouble were it not for the fact that our Korean teacher is there to help out and explain things better. They also listen to her much more better.
Attempting to practice the play. The tables on their sides are supposed to be "houses" in the "village".
Sitting (not so patiently) for their part in the play.
And what a venture this is. I'll have to get some pictures of my cute little props. I've been a prop making machine lately. I have "made" vegetables, "wood", and repurposed a container to be our "pot". There are a few things I want to pick up from Daiso, if possible. I also need to find some paper/craft foam or something similar in order to make a sort-of dinosaur costume for Zach's class' play. I'm not sure about costuming for my kids really.
In addition to the plays, I've been getting my room ready for the new school year in March as well. We have a field trip this Friday (February 22nd) to Everland which is South Korea's largest theme park and then the following Thursday (February 28th) is the graduation "concert" and Friday is Independence Movement Day (March 1st). Our new teacher should be here by then since the new year/schedule will be starting on Monday, March 4th. So I have been doing some sprucing up here and there and I'm still fishing for some things to make the room a little more interesting and inviting for little ones.
Colors are always fun, and color mixing is even more fun!
I redid my tree, I took off all the snowflakes. I also remade the tree trunk which was all torn and not pretty.
I also have a couple of extra pictures to share here, one is lunch since I have neglected to share lately. Things haven't been nearly as exciting lately though and it's usually the typical fare. The last picture is our celebration treat from Baskin Robbins in the local Homeplus.
Rice, seaweed, kimchi, something that I think is from the tops of turnips, and soup!
Our delicious cake, we already split the blue and red slice with the macaron type thing on top. It was delicious and had pop rocks in it, which was kind of a surprise.
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