Wow! It's been awhile so I will be adding a few blogs to try to catch you up! Halloween is a holiday that is not really done up here in Korea, but with all us foreigners we could not let this holiday slip us by. At our school all the kids were able to dress in costumes and we had a day full of activities, candy and picture taking (mostly picture taking) for the kiddos! My class had 3 spidermen, 2 witches, 2 snow whites, 2 random princesses and 1 power ranger.... real creative I know... but I was a chicken on the other hand.
The kids thought it was hilarious to see their teacher dressed as a chicken for the day and really enjoyed watching me do the chicken dance and pulling my tail as I would walk by. We started the morning by carving pumpkins. Korean pumpkins are not quite like pumpkins back home. They are very short and wide, which can make it a bit difficult to put a face on be we (and by we I mean I) managed. The kids had never carved a pumpkin before so they really loved feeling the goop in the middle. One of my favorite parts of carving pumpkins is keeping the seeds to roast so I mentioned wanting to keep the seeds to my Korean supervisor. After the strange looks she then brought be a bag full of about 4 pumpkin insides for me to go through to get the seeds. While this was a bit more than I anticipated I was quite pleased when I still had pumpkin seeds well into November. Anyway enough about pumpkin seeds... this was supposed to be about the kids right! After pumpkin carving we then played some games and then went to a Halloween fashion show. This definitely was a first for me. All the preschoolers gathered in the gym to show off their costumes to their friends. There was a catwalk and everything. All the teachers were the MC's to introduce their class. After all the picture taking was done we moved on to trick-or-treating. All the children came with their class to each teacher's classroom with their handmade candy jars. This was also a first for most of them since this is not a big holiday here. This concluded our wonderful Halloween festivities and then we sent the children home with their sugar high. As for the big kids/teachers on Halloween we could not just settle for the kid's festivities. My friend Katie had a costume house party and we had a photo booth (of course). We then headed out to some bars in a nearby area. I was very excited that we could bring Halloween to Korea and celebrate in true American fashion.
Wow! It's been awhile so I will be adding a few blogs to try to catch you up! Halloween is a holiday that is not really done up here in Korea, but with all us foreigners we could not let this holiday slip us by. At our school all the kids were able to dress in costumes and we had a day full of activities, candy and picture taking (mostly picture taking) for the kiddos! My class had 3 spidermen, 2 witches, 2 snow whites, 2 random princesses and 1 power ranger.... real creative I know... but I was a chicken on the other hand. 
The kids thought it was hilarious to see their teacher dressed as a chicken for the day and really enjoyed watching me do the chicken dance and pulling my tail as I would walk by. We started the morning by carving pumpkins. Korean pumpkins are not quite like pumpkins back home. They are very short and wide, which can make it a bit difficult to put a face on be we (and by we I mean I) managed. The kids had never carved a pumpkin before so they really loved feeling the goop in the middle. One of my favorite parts of carving pumpkins is keeping the seeds to roast so I mentioned wanting to keep the seeds to my Korean supervisor. After the strange looks she then brought be a bag full of about 4 pumpkin insides for me to go through to get the seeds. While this was a bit more than I anticipated I was quite pleased when I still had pumpkin seeds well into November. Anyway enough about pumpkin seeds... this was supposed to be about the kids right! After pumpkin carving we then played some games and then went to a Halloween fashion show. This definitely was a first for me. All the preschoolers gathered in the gym to show off their costumes to their friends. There was a catwalk and everything. All the teachers were the MC's to introduce their class. After all the picture taking was done we moved on to trick-or-treating. All the children came with their class to each teacher's classroom with their handmade candy jars. This was also a first for most of them since this is not a big holiday here. This concluded our wonderful Halloween festivities and then we sent the children home with their sugar high. As for the big kids/teachers on Halloween we could not just settle for the kid's festivities. My friend Katie had a costume house party and we had a photo booth (of course). We then headed out to some bars in a nearby area. I was very excited that we could bring Halloween to Korea and celebrate in true American fashion.
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