by Izzie
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Field Trip
The 3rd through 6th grade recently went to a track and field meet, so on that day the 1st and 2nd grades went to a cultural center in Gyeongju.
The students poured chocolate into molds shaped like important Korean relics.
(That's a background picture on a stage behind her, if you are wondering.)
The worst part was when the students had to eat the chocolate that wouldn't fit in the molds. Nobody liked that part at all...
Then they made masks. They used a strange substance that seemed like tiny styrofoam balls in a mixture of glue and paint. You could even mix the colors to make new ones. Somehow the paint did not stay on the children's fingers.
Ben made a fox and I got to make a rabbit to give to Izzie... but it has since ripped and been recycled.
Then we had a picnic lunch and played some outside games before returning to the school.
One of the typical Korean games is called Talk Dari Sa-eum (literally chicken leg fight) and involves kids standing on one leg while they bend their knee and hold onto their other foot. Then they hop toward another person and try to knock him/her off balance by bumping into him or her. If the other person falls or lets go of his/her leg, that person is out and the other one wins.
It reminds me of games we played when we were younger, games that I hope are not played much anymore... like Red Rover. Really, isn't it a miracle we survived childhood without multiple trips to the hospital for dislocated shoulders? I also remember sitting on the crossbar of the swing sets at my first elementary school and playing clapping games with my friends. This means we were not holding on with anything but our legs... and I don't ever remember being told to get down by any of the teachers.
Were those teachers crazy, or have we become overly cautious in this day and age? At any rate, the students all survived to chicken fight another day.
The students poured chocolate into molds shaped like important Korean relics.
The worst part was when the students had to eat the chocolate that wouldn't fit in the molds. Nobody liked that part at all...
Then they made masks. They used a strange substance that seemed like tiny styrofoam balls in a mixture of glue and paint. You could even mix the colors to make new ones. Somehow the paint did not stay on the children's fingers.
Ben made a fox and I got to make a rabbit to give to Izzie... but it has since ripped and been recycled.
Then we had a picnic lunch and played some outside games before returning to the school.
One of the typical Korean games is called Talk Dari Sa-eum (literally chicken leg fight) and involves kids standing on one leg while they bend their knee and hold onto their other foot. Then they hop toward another person and try to knock him/her off balance by bumping into him or her. If the other person falls or lets go of his/her leg, that person is out and the other one wins.
It reminds me of games we played when we were younger, games that I hope are not played much anymore... like Red Rover. Really, isn't it a miracle we survived childhood without multiple trips to the hospital for dislocated shoulders? I also remember sitting on the crossbar of the swing sets at my first elementary school and playing clapping games with my friends. This means we were not holding on with anything but our legs... and I don't ever remember being told to get down by any of the teachers.
Were those teachers crazy, or have we become overly cautious in this day and age? At any rate, the students all survived to chicken fight another day.
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