Halloween at School

So Halloween is not a traditional holiday for Korea to celebrate but I think most of the English schools make an effort to have fun with the kids.  Also the kids love dressing up.  So at my school we had a different activity in each classroom and the kids spent time in each classroom.  Here are some pics of us all! 

Me and Yoony first thing in the morning!

Andrew

Tiffany

Jessica

Serena

Tim

Poor Thomas here was so scared of Halloween.  We decorated the main hall and he refused to go in there at all.  When I got to school in the morning he was on the sidewalk with his mom and when he saw me he just cried because he was so scared to go to school today!  He finally calmed down some but never did go into Wonderhall.

Harvard class.  The babies of the school!

UCLA

Yoojin, Grace, Judy and Ruki

Andy

Lunch time

Esther

Tron and Jessica

Tron

Andy and Yejee

Nic and Qasem scared the kids all morning but the kids finally got used to them.

Nicole

The one and only Harry Potter and then he turned into a zombie

Pink Amy.  She never looks at me for pics so this is special!

The teachers!

Sally

Another Sally

I found a video on Youtube, "The Skeleton Dance" and the kids loved it so here they are dancing to it.

Sometimes the excitement is too much for some kids.  Edy fell asleep in the middle of Wonderhall and he was really out.  Everyone left and he never knew.

Here we sat him up and he was still fast asleep.  When he finally did wake he saw no one was there and had a shocked looked.  It was really funny.  Occasionally we lose one at the end of the day!

Some of the decorations that scared Thomas!

These are some of my elementary kids.  Sharon, Esther, Alice and Hayley.

Lisa

Hiding from Shrek behind the door.  Here is Annie, Lena, Ariel, Amy and Rosa.

My Ivy1B class.

Ivy 2A class.

Grace.  This is my star student when it comes to plays.  She memorizes the whole story and is able to help the others with their parts.  She makes my life a bit easier.

Here we are trying to get the kids to start dancing but the elementary kids do not like to dance like the kinder kids.

Here we started having the kids arm wrestle.  First is Jisoo and some kid I don't know.  Jisoo is the son of one of the teachers here and I told her Jisoo didn't want to and she said, "Yeah, he is weak."  Here he is finally trying and yup, he is weak, but a good sport.

Here is Annie and a girl I don't know and they were actually a good match for each other.

So we had a really fun Halloween and the kids loved it.  It was a long, tiring day though.  At least it felt like Halloween!

Anyang Art Park

So I almost didn't go to this place because it is kind of far but I am so happy I did.  It was a beautiful, warm day and I found out this place is kind of in the forest.  So all the trees were showing their fall colors.  Turns out since there is so much forest area there are lots of places to go hiking. I went up this one very steep hill and I kept going because I expected to get to the end with maybe a view of the whole area but it never ended.  So I finally stopped because I was hot and it was a very, very steep hill.  I went up a long way though.  I even asked one guy if he made it to the end and he said it did not end.  Maybe one day when I am more prepared I can try the whole thing.  This place was really fun and I saw a lot of different things.

After getting off the bus you walk along this stream.

Crazy egg thing I found and it had a map like thing inside.  All in Korean of course.

Love the fall colors.

Neat waterfall.

Sometimes along the stream they had art on the walls.  These were really cool, big flowers.

This kid was trying to catch some fish with a net.  I didn't stay long enough to see him succeed.

A random sign and the thing in it is a red cowboy hat so I have no idea what they wanted this to mean.

A crazy tunnel I decided to walk through.

This is the exit of the tunnel that you walk down to get back to the ground.  Very neat looking.

Another view.

The tunnel lead to this place in the forest where a trail began and I stopped to eat lunch.  There was no one trail but many many different places to go.  I took one path and that lead me to the evil hill that never ended. 

This is heading down the steep climb I took to no where!  It may look flat in the picture, but I swear it was not.

Another pretty view of the hills around the area.

I came across this group playing a game that looked like a cross between tennis and soccer.  I have no idea what the game is.

A neat design on the side of some building.

A cute little play place for kids.  They could ride this train.

I love streets like this with the trees.

As I was headed back to the bus stop a group of guys were playing their saxaphones.  Some random passerby began to dance and he was pretty funny to watch.  The saxaphone guys were good too.

I love the dogs here.

This is just kind of a weird video of me at the first art piece I found called "3-dimentional mirrior labyrinth" created by Denmark.

Another view of the cool mirror place.

Dancing Budda from France.  He had like a propellar blade on his head.  I need to go back because this is a great picture for my traveling bear and I forgot him today.

Anyang crate house from Germany.  It was a small house like place built from crates.  I actually took this picture on my own with a timer.

Called "Girl" from Korea

The next 3 pics are from what they called "Forest of Spirits" from Korea.  Some of these were neat and others were kind of creepy!

Cool park for kids.

Why can't American parks have such cool things to play with like this hampster wheel thing?  This girl was funny!

Pretty flower with a bee.

The Koreans love to sleep and do it almost anywhere.

I had an awesome day and will need to go back again!  It was a long day though.  On the subway it took me about an hour and 15 minutes to get to Anyang and then a short bus ride.

Itaewon

I finally had a weekend of not being really sick or doing somehting else so I was able to travel around again.  I went to Itaewon for a little to explore. This is the place close to the military base (so lots of army men) and there are a ton of foreigners.  I actually felt weird being around so many foreigners and hearing English.  They have a Taco Bell here and I was going to go but the line was aorund the corner so I didn't.  They have Starbucks and I always love having Starbucks.  I even found a cute cupcake bakery and the cupcake was pretty good.  There is also a Coldstone and Quiznos.  They really like their coffee and bakery shops in this city as well.  I also learned it is a great place for souviener shopping.  I only took a couple pics so here are a few things I saw. 

A crazy chandelier outside this cool building.  Sorry the sun is kind of in the wrong spot for a good pic.

Neat bird!

A very colorful hotel.

Who needs Paris!  I am pretty sure this is not a place most people want to go.  The street is probably sketchy at night.  I was told by someone that Itaewon is the red light district.

Crazy sculpture I saw.  All the blue is more little men.