Sports Day

Today was Sports Day at my school. Coming into today, I had no idea what Sports Day involved or what I was going to have to do. As it turned out, I didn't have to anything except enjoy the beautiful weather, be treated like a celebrity by my kids, meet some parents, run a lap around the track, and eat lots of food. It was the most fun I've had at school yet. It was great seeing my kids outside of the classroom, especially the ones that have behavior problems in my class. Everywhere I went groups of my little kids would crowd around me shouting "hello" and random things in Korean and English. My friend Kate came to hang out for the second half of the day which was fun because I had someone to make comments with about what was going on, and seeing my kids' reactions to her were great: "Teacha, friend?" "Oh so beautiful!" "Wo-a, weh-gook-in!". One highlight of my day was winning a gigantic candy that looks like a Korean battleship by throwing a dart at a magnetic spinning board. My kids went crazy when they saw I had won. I was also dragged around the track by one my kids during one of their relay races. Here are some photos and a video from the day...


3rd graders


warm-ups





opening ceremony






Tammy and friends


Tammy and her girlfriends


5th grade boys


my cute 3rd graders





candy game I later won


1st grade relay race


host family







selling fake guns on school grounds is always a good idea


gym teacher...this guy is awesome


drinking beer in an elementary school hallway


Kate came to visit!




my prize I won

My third grade students learned different words associated with birthdays, so we had a balloon race where students had to grab the picture of whatever word I said.

My sixth graders are writing their pen pal letters again and I thought I'd share with you some of my favorite things I've read in the ones that are finished so far.

“My favorite holiday is Sunday because play game and play with my friend.”

“Over winter vacation I maked snowman.”

“My favorite star is No Hong Chul. Sorry, I don’t know the volleyball team name. Korea had the Korea war about 60 years ago. So Korea is south Korea and north Korea. I want to get a dog as a pet.”

“I love you. That’s okay I’m a girl!”

“I don’t like school because there are so many scary teacher.”

“Cheongju is sunny and warm. What a nice day for playing computer game. You are younger than me. But I study English not well. You need understand. Ok?”

“P.S. Questions your ask:
1. I do in my free time is sleep.
2. I don’t have brothers, but I have sisters.
3. I like exciting.”

“You can email me at shymom01@....”

"I don't have any pet. Before I have dog and fishes. but dog went other house and fishes are dead. I were very sad."

"Over winter vacation I went to dork do." (this is supposed to be Dok Island...do is Korean for island)

"I very x3 like Coke."

"I like pet it is a dog cat."

"I is learn English!"

"I am handsome man."

I love my job :)