Halloween Times

For Halloween, my school hosted a Story Book Character Parade.  All the teachers dressed up as different characters then we got the kiddos together and they sorted us into a "Fiction and Non Fiction" T-chart.  We marched around the entire school for our parade and the 'big kids' and parents cheered.  It was so much fun and the kids loved it!  

Jake took pictures of all the teachers in character to put on the T-chart but I'm just going to highlight my Kindergarten team for you to meet :) 

Meet Alicia before her fairy godmother helped her out.
Our classrooms connect through a hallway where our kids' bathroom and our kitchen is shared. 

Meet Vanessa the Viking and Baby Bump Girl.
Vanessa's classroom is in another building with amazing (1100 square feet) perks but we are certain she wants to give it all up to be closer to her team...

I'm a brave girl wearing stripes. 

After school our friends, Peter and Sarah, invited us to a Halloween party that was being thrown by an English teacher in Daegu which was being put on for the locals and the homesick.  Koreans do not celebrate any sort of Halloween tradition so they were fascinated at the idea of dressing up and getting sweets.  Jake and I had a lot of fun and we were asked repeatedly about the traditions in America surrounding this scary holiday.  We felt like we let them down initially when we said, "We eat and talk" when asked about most October 31st celebrations.  We had to dig deep and remember elements like carnivals, trick or treat sayings, carving jack o' lanterns, decorations, porch lights being on vs. off, pranks (that one was easy for Jake to remember...), startling movies, etc.  If only I could have had them in my Kindergarten class the previous two weeks I may have been able to paint a better picture of 'custom traditions' !!! 

"Which one is not like the other?" 

We went as a double helping of "Kim Chi'"
Kim chi' is a traditional Korean dish (most of the time) being fermented cabbage with spices on it
 (hence the red pops of color).
It is literally served at EVERY meal.  It is so popular here that in our apartment we have a refrigerator just for the production and storage of kim chi.
We were quite the hit!

Sarah + Becca and friends playing a game similar to "Telephone".
Except it was all in Korean...guess who didn't win in this picture.  

Friends playing games! 

Happy Fall, Y'all!

(Now that it's almost December...)