Filed Trip to Korean Village

The kinders from the morning classes went on another field trip to a traditional Korean village.  We first went to a show with some traditional music and they had the kids interact and sing along.  Then we walked around the village and saw different parts of what a vilage used to have.  Then snack and went home. 

The kids waiting for the show to begin.

Judy

Sam and Tim

Krinsten, Lucy and Olivia

Time to tour.  This is my class.

Nice fall colors.  These are pots that would hold food items.

My homeroom, Princeton

MiT

Kelly

Me and some of Princeton

a fridge

Playing a traditional game.

Snack time.  The kids bring a lot of food and they love sharing it with everyone.  I began to eat a cliff bar and shared with the kids and they loved it.

Sarah and Tiffany

Seoul Tower

Cool pond

It was a good day and always nice to be outside.  We again had amazing weather!  We were stuck in the parking lot trying to leave for about 30 minutes because some guy parked his van in front of all our buses and we could not find the owner of the van.  We finally did and there was quite an arguement but we finally were able to leave and go back to school and have a late lunch!

Teacher trip to Danyang

So we had a teachers workshop day and all the staff of the school went on a trip for the day.  We had a group of about 15 people and even the owner of the school came.  We went on an organized tour of Danyang and saw beautiful places.  We went to a site of where a TV show used to be filmed and it was this whole village built and we were able to explore it and it was really cool.  We had to take a 3 hour train ride to get to the place. 

Here is the train.  Very nice, clean trains here!

View from the train on our way.

At the station they had a neat replica of a traditional Korean house.

Our bus.

Very fancy bus inside and they had seats looking at each other.  From the left: Tracy, Ruth, Rachel, Swany, and Yury.

Rachel and Swany in front.  Qasem, Nic and Philip in back.

Kiera and me!

Our first stop at the TV show filming site.  It was a Korean show so I have no idea the name.

This is a torture thing where the bad guy lays down and someone hits them with a bat like stick on thier butt.

Most of the staff. On the right is Mr. Son (the maintenance man), Qasem, me and Kiera.  IN the middle back is Ria and Nic in front.  Left back to front is Rachel, Swany, Philip, Ruth and Jane.

Cool throne place.

We also got to go down into a cave.  This cave was huge and very neat.

Keira and me!

Some very low places you had to crawl through!

Lunch!  My first time eating while sitting on the floor.

Me and Swany on the boat ride!

Ria, Kiera and me.

A beautiful place.

Finally went to sit inside where it was warmer.  Here is from left: Tracy, Swany and Yury.

Ria and me.

Turns out the older Koreans love to dance so they did some dancing on the boat on the trip back to the dock.  They were fun to watch and I have to say the song they were dancing to was the longest song I have ever heard.

Towards the end of the day.  Just a neat river.  Everywhere was so pretty.

Our last stop was a market and this place is famous for their garlic.  There was a TON of garlic everywhere.

It was a really fun day and I loved seeing such a nice place.  It was a long day though.  I left my apartment at 7am and then got home at 10pm.  I had a little nap on the train ride back. 

School Birthday day and Random

So once a month the school holds a birthday party for the kids who have their birthdays that month.  It involves a lot of food, some singing and the students in the birthday kids class give them gifts.  This month we had 4 birthdays: Dorothy, Antonio, Cathy and Ruki.  When the other students give them gifts they have to hug each other and take a picture; they look really cute.  It is fun and it gives the kids a break form class.   

Some of my UCLA class.

MiT class.

Cathy and Lena hugging.

Cathy and Grace.

Cathy and Charlotte

Oxford class

We can never get Dorothy to smile.

The line to get the gifts and the teachers put them all in a bag.

Here are some videos I have taken of my Princeton class singing.