I hope that everyone had a great Easter last week. It was pretty low key here. While Christians celebrate, it's not celebrated as a holiday by the rest of the country. It is impossible to find things like easter eggs, baskets, or candy in any stores. Most of my students had never even heard of the holiday.

We had an Easter Celebration day at our school. It was the first time that the school had ever celebrated Easter. We all made bunny ears to wear, and went out to the park. They got to do an egg hunt. We had plastic eggs shipped from America. Each child got to find two eggs, and surprisingly, they all stopped hunting after finding two. Then we got to use the eggs to do a spoon and egg race. This is an extremely hard task for 3-5 year olds, and we shortened the length of the race several times.

While the kids were waiting their turn to do the egg race, the supervisors decided to blow bubbles all around the kids. They then proceeded to yell at the students for jumping up and trying to catch bubbles instead of sitting nicely. Poor kids. How in the world to you expect kids to just sit there while you're blowing bubbles all around them? With some prodding from the teachers, the supervisors finally allowed the kids to chase bubbles while they were waiting to do the race.

On Easter, we had our annual church barbeque. Oddly enough, it didn't feel funny this year having a barbeque potluck. Last year it seemed really strange to me, but I guess I'm used to the strangeness now. Our pastor's baby was born on Easter morning, 2 weeks early. The only other pastors in the church are the grandparents of the baby. Needless to say, it was quite an exciting day for everyone.

This week I had a student's birthday. (I think that 6 of my ten student have had their birthday in the two months that I have had them.) This birthday was an extreme example of how crazy the parents go for their child's ten minute birthday party in school. When I got to the classroom in the morning, there were two cake boxes in the closet, each one about 18 inches wide/deep/tall. One contained the cake with a full size Barbie in the middle of it, and the other was full of gourmet cupcakes. We had to call home to find out what the parents wanted us to do with all of it. (Are the kids supposed to eat the cake and the cupcakes?)

I am pretty excited for the coming week. We have a six-day weekend that starts on Thursday. It will be for Children's Day (a national holiday in Korea) and Budha's birthday. My friend Bri will be visiting from Japan from Wednesday night to Sunday. Tell you all about it next week!