Halloween

Since they don't celebrate Halloween in Korea, I've taken the opportunity to teach my kids about it, candy and all. The kids really like it. The swamp me for candy all the time. Some of them forget about saying trick or treat and just say "give me candy." Then I get to talk about being polite. I've been teaching it all week. Yesterday was actual Halloween though, so I put zombie makeup on my hand and on Niall's. The kids were loved it. They all wanted to touch it. At lunch, two boys came in and noticed it. Then, they wanted me to put some on them. I started, and soon after, 3 girls came in and wanted it too. I applied zombie makeup on 5 kids hands in 15 minutes! It was nuts! Some of them weren't that good, but oh well. One of the girls kept saying hurry. I was like I'M TRYING! Anyway, it was really cute, and they liked it.

On Wednesday, we talked about Halloween at teacher class then two of the teachers at my school went to coffee with Gianni and I. One of the English teachers really wanted to meet him, so we went. It was a realy nice evening. First, we went to coffee for a few hours then we went downtown and ate at Traveler's during special Halloween Quiz night. Hyun Joo came with us, and as far as I know, she's the first teacher from our school to see Niall do trivia. We came in 4th place and only 2 points off of 1st! Hyun Joo even got one of the answers for us! We may not have won in the end, but we won both of the beer challenges! First was a costume contest. No one really dressed up, but Hyun Joo had a cute horn headband, so Niall gave us the beer. The second challenge was a monster music mash up, and we named the most songs in the mashup. It was awesome! It was a really fun night.

For Halloween, Gianni and I were going to go to Costco, but I had to get my nails done for our engagement photo shoot tomorrow and didn't get back until later. Instead, we ate at Lotteria (like McDonalds) at Home Plus and bought candy and snacks. We watched The Poltergeist and Hocus Pocus. It was a relaxing and fun Halloween evening :)

*On an unHalloween related not, today I saw the cell phone portfolio that the students put their phones in at the beginning of the day. They explained that they don't get to keep their phones during the day; they have to put them in the portfolio slots. There's a special, big portfolio-like case for each class! They were shocked  to hear that they don't take the students' phones in the US. They said Korea is bad for doing it, and I explained what happens in class when students have phones. They disagreed, but it was a cut conversation with me and the girls in class. I'm amazed and glad that they do this!