Secondly, on Thursday (I think it was Thursday) we had a talent show and graduation ceremony with the kinders. It was a success. Each class performed a "musical" and then at the end the 3 classes that are moving on to elementary school received awards and diplomas. Their parents came and it was a pretty fun morning. It was across the street from school at the Suji YMCA. We got there at 9, which is an hour early, and rehearsed until show time at noon. When I say rehearsed, I mean one class at a time was on stage and the other classes fought. Due to a student moving, I played the part of Mommy for Aurora's Alice in Wonderland. I had five lines. It was the least embarrassed I have ever been on a stage before. Apollo class did New Sound of Music. Ashley teacher played the role of Maria. For the actual performance the kids were dressed up in some pretty cute, although at times inappropriate outfits. For example, Nancy from Titan, was a cat in Brenanam Town and was in a little dress that I did not think was appropriate attire for a 6 year old. But what do I know? Here are some pictures that I swiped from Ashley T due to the tragic death of my camera.
This is Annie and Rosie from Apollo class. Rosie is the one in pigtails. They are so cute and well behaved when the other one is absent. Together, they are unstoppable chatterboxes. If I separate them, they yell across the room. I gave up and let them sit together and chat. Then I surprise call on them just to get the point across that I know what they are up to.
This is Ashley T and Apollo Class doing the New Sound of Music. During the weeks leading up to the talent show, the Apollo Kinders were singing songs from the movie endlessly. Obviously I watched it when I got home from work.
This is me as Mommy and Robin as Alice for Aurora's Alice in Wonderland. I believe the line here was "Oh Sweetie! You are so good at reading! I am so proud of you" [hug]
This is Clarus from Titan. On normal days she has pigtails and the cutest smile in the world. I like to call her Cutie Clarus and her sister is Crazy Clara. There's a smaller one, Claudia. She's a baby though so no nickname for her.
This is Esther and Eileen. They are the other two from Titan. Clarus and Nancy are the other two. Nancy is the one in the pic in the last post. Keep up guys. Esther is brilliant but a little devil child. Eileen is less than brilliant, but very sweet. At the end of the talent show, all the classes were on the stage singing I'll Love you Tomorrow and at the end of the song, Esther got this look on her face, leaned up to the microphone and screamed as loud as she could. I was very glad that she was not my responsibility at that moment.
Ian T and Jason T supervising the rehearsals.
This is more of Aurora's practice time for Alice in Wonderland.
And this is Zidam and Brian from Aurora. They were guards in Wonderland. Brian is the sweetest kid in class. Zidam likes to throw erasers.
We finally got paid! It's awesome to have money in my Korean account. This week the challenge is to learn the best way to send money from here to Chase to pay my loans. But I'm thrilled to have been paid! Maybe I'll get a camera too...speaking of pictures
This weekend is the Lunar New Year, so no school today! (Monday) In China, the Lunar New Year is a huge celebration. In Korea, the LNY is a time to be with family and honor your elders. Most of my kids said they are going to visit grandparents. I met up with Marco finally and saw some of Korea.
Marco was a senior at Wooster my freshman year. He was a thrower. He's been here for about 2 years and his facebook status is what gave me the idea to do this whole mess. (Korea) So Saturday morning I got up at 9, after going to bed at what I'm pretty sure was 6:30 am and hopped on a city bus. It was my first experience with Korean transportation. It went surprisingly well. So I rode the city bus down to Suwon. It was about 45 minutes. Then I tackled the subway. I have no idea how I did it, but I bought a ticket from a machine with no English buttons. Then I found the right subway...accidentally. And rode it for about an hour to Chenon. I met Marco there and we got on a luxury bus for about 4 hours down to Busan. Busan is in the south on the beach. We had dinner at his cousin's girlfriend's house then went down town. More taxi's, buses, and subways. Hung out downtown. Met a bunch of people. Made it back the house. We were then going to go to another big town to see another Woo grad that I don't know, but that fell through so instead we hopped back on a bus for about 5 hours and came to Suji. I showed Marco the Underground which had to happen because he worked at the UG at Woo! It just had to happen. Marco is also fluent in Korean so I introduced him to all my Underground Korean friends and they loved him. David, a Korean dude with very little English who Ashley and I talk to there a lot had such a good time with Marco translating our conversation that when the bar closed, he took Myself, Marco, and Bartender Sunny out to a Japanese soup place. It was delicious. And Marco learned new words for gentle, beautiful, and kind as David was hitting on me constantly. Due to the unfortunate camera situation, I have to wait for Marco to get home and send me pictures of the weekend so that I can share them with you.
I touched on it briefly, but in Korea, I'm pretty. And they're not shy about telling you. Guys tell guys they're handsome. Girls tell girls they're beautiful. Everyone tells me "You so pretty. Pretty eyes. Beautiful smile" I feel weird about this paragraph, but I think it is an important part of the culture and I want to share it with you.
I told you it was going to be long. Still hang on to mail. I'll explain why in the next post. And add pictures from the weekend. I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day!! GrandmaAmy and GrandpaBob, did you get your traditional Valentine's Day card sent out? I bet it was tricky because of the move.
I love you and I miss you! Please please please email me news.
P.S. It's so weird watching the Olympics not in America.
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