Happy Campers

Very very delayed post, but before our non-holidays (three days is just a long weekend, not a holiday Korea) we had two days of summer camp with our kids. Lots of fun, lots of stress and two 12 hour days, joyous for us all, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Day ONE - involved a sleep over at school for the kinders, which was super cute. After a full day of classes the kids came back with their mums and I hosted a show and tell contest with the two youngest classes. Very cute, all the usual things happened, one kid shouted his entire speech, another spoke into his chest and put on silly voices and acted like an idiot, and one refused even to stand up and give his speech.
Then we had a huge dinner with all the parents and kids together. Mostly involved smiling politely as a lot of them can't speak much/any English themselves, but they are interested in how you look (let's face it, this is a very superficial society and that's important to them)
Then the kids got put into their pjs for a fashion show. The parents left at this point and there were MANY tears from kids about a night away from them.

Olivia playing

Abigail and Stephanie

Julie, one of my favourite afternoon kids
(she must be about 10 our age) * and please
note, none of us chose to wear the baby pink
polo shirts, it was forced upon us for camp, horrid.



Carp playing his guitar while playing
a game of freeze




Kai with a very serious face

Kai had recently broken his finger and

was all bandaged up, which my coworker

Conrad found very amusing

Mars class, our babies, Oscar, Sam and Daniel.

Oscar is hilarious, he just giggles and is always

in his own little world, Sam is super smart but

lately getting very angry and having huge tantys.

Meanwhile Daniel is not very intelligent, and not very

cute, and not very nice all round.

Kiddies dancing in their jarmies

Julie looking like a bit of a lunatic

Sara dancing with Rosie and Heidi

Day TWO - was a trip to Ocean World, Korea's largest waterpark, with some of our older afternoon students. Fun you say? Well, I thought it would be but involved instead hours and hours of stress at missing children. I mean, harm probably won't come to them in a waterpark with so many lifeguards around and all, but as a group, we had NO contingency plan for missing children, even AFTER I'd misplaced two of them before lunchtime. And it was camp day at the park so it was teeming with thousands of Korean children, all wearing matching lifejackets. I can recognise the kids I teach anywhere, but was given a group of children I didn't know from a bar of soap and I instantly lost them, it was like looking for hay in a haystack, it all looks the same.

Erica, Lynn and I on the bus, I teach these two

every day and they're very sweet, Erica can be

very bossy, and Lynn kinda strange, but I think

they're great.

Sara and her team

My team, which they themselves named Team

Crazy - which is a hugely offensive thing to call

someone here, but they picked it, and I think,

looking at this picture at least, it kinda fits!