Children's Day

Last week was Children's Day! It is a national holiday here, so we had Wednesday off of school. Tuesday was an all-day party for the kids. We kicked off the party with a magic show. The magician was great, and the kids loved it. One of my kids was chosen to help with one part of the show, which I'm sure she will remember for a long time. After the magic show, the kids rotated around the school to six seven different rooms. We had face painting, a movie, story time, cotton candy and popcorn, a scavenger hunt and one more room that I can't remember. My room was an amazingly fun relay race. We hung cookies from string with clothes pins, and the kids had to run up and bit the cookie off, without using their hands. It was a crumbly mess, but the kids had fun.

Lumi is one of the most outgoing kids in my class, but when she got up in front of the whole school with the magician, she kind of froze. She just shuffled around and wouldn't say anything for a while, but after a few minutes she really got into it.

Jun and Yoo-Jin enjoyed their popcorn and cotton candy. (By the way, making cotton candy in those machines is not as easy as the cotton candy guys make it look. You end up getting all sticky, and the machine even sparked at me!)

Of course, after we finished the cookie relay in my room, I made the kids do my favorite dance with our extra time. They always look quite silly by the end of the song with the actions that I make them do. (hmmm, that must mean that I look just as silly, if not more because I'm an adult doing the weird dance.

Today after church, all my friends went to Outback Steak House. Instead of going with and watching them all eat their meat, (most of you know that I am a vegetarian) I decided to take the bus home. The bus that I take home comes every 35-40 minutes. After waiting 25 minutes the bus finally came. The problem was that there were already two busses stopped at the bus stop, so the bus driver decided to just drive right by instead of waiting for a bus to go. (Not even a hint of his foot on the break) Watching that bus that I had waited so long for just fly by was the most frustrating thing in the world. I decided to take another bus that was going in my general direction (which is never a good idea here, but I didn't want to just wait for another 40 minutes). Of course, I ended up sitting on that bus for an hour, and then getting off way far away from where I wanted to be. I sat next to a guy who spoke a little English, so we spoke to eachother in broken English (him) and broken Korean (me) and a little "Konglish." He was a really nice guy, and after talking for a while he asked for my phone number and email address. (Why is it that anyone who knows any English always ends up asking me for that) I have already gotten a text from him.... Creepy

Quote of the week: There is another teacher in my school who is a vegan. The students that I had for Kindergarten until March now have her (Sue) as their teacher. At the end of class one day on the way down the stairwell one of the girls in that class saw me and said "Stacie Teacher, Sue Teacher is more of a vegetarian than you are!"

Happy Mothers Day to my Mom, Grandma Noha and Grandma Pucci, and all the other Mother's out who are reading this.

Congratulations Kim for completing your first half marathon! I am very impressed, and extremely jealous.