Thursday, May 14, 2009
Bonus Picnic Picture
I forgot this picture. Matthew (a.k.a. MP...999, a.k.a. MP Megalodon 999, a.k.a. Dancy-Pants) wore some awesome tights.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I Really Am Moses
So in 2005 I had a Moses themed birthday party. It was awesome and a total surprise. I recall trying to part the waters of my beer. Now it appears that things have come full circle.
This is the Jindo Miracle Sea Parting Festival. In English it's also called the Moses Miracle Festival. 3 times a year the tide gets really low. So low that a weird sand bar/road appears between Jindo and another nearby island. So for a brief period of time one can walk between the two islands.
Joel, Jeff and I caught an early bus down to the island. It was a 5 hour ride but it was also the only route we were navigate by ourselves. So basically, once the road starts opening up you have to book it across the water. As you can see I bought some sweet boots because I thought there was going to be a lot of mud, muck and grossness. Joel decided to go barefoot for most of the way. As it turns out the road is not made of soft muck. it's almost completely composed of asorted crushed bivalve shells. Joel was not pleased. As you can see he did eventually decide to put the Shanbu's back on. So, anyway, we were trying to run to get to the other island when we were stopped by the police and forced to turn around. Boo! We had almost made it...
In this picture Joel has decided that he has enough small cuts on his feet and that he should put his shoes back on.
One of the funny things about this is that there were a bunch of tourists trying to get across the land bridge. BUT there were even more people digging up various clams and mussels. they were also collecting large kelp plants. This woman is very excited because she just found a baby octopus.
All along the road there were these fluorescent blue and orange starfish. I kept picking them up and flinging them back into the water because I wasn't sure how long the tide was going to stay out. It made think of that story I learned at CCD about the guy on the beach who was flinging starfish back into the sea. When asked why he was doing such a pointless task he said something like it makes a difference to that one. I think that's about the closest I've been to church in a decade.
This is the Jindo Miracle Sea Parting Festival. In English it's also called the Moses Miracle Festival. 3 times a year the tide gets really low. So low that a weird sand bar/road appears between Jindo and another nearby island. So for a brief period of time one can walk between the two islands.
Joel, Jeff and I caught an early bus down to the island. It was a 5 hour ride but it was also the only route we were navigate by ourselves. So basically, once the road starts opening up you have to book it across the water. As you can see I bought some sweet boots because I thought there was going to be a lot of mud, muck and grossness. Joel decided to go barefoot for most of the way. As it turns out the road is not made of soft muck. it's almost completely composed of asorted crushed bivalve shells. Joel was not pleased. As you can see he did eventually decide to put the Shanbu's back on. So, anyway, we were trying to run to get to the other island when we were stopped by the police and forced to turn around. Boo! We had almost made it...
In this picture Joel has decided that he has enough small cuts on his feet and that he should put his shoes back on.
One of the funny things about this is that there were a bunch of tourists trying to get across the land bridge. BUT there were even more people digging up various clams and mussels. they were also collecting large kelp plants. This woman is very excited because she just found a baby octopus.
All along the road there were these fluorescent blue and orange starfish. I kept picking them up and flinging them back into the water because I wasn't sure how long the tide was going to stay out. It made think of that story I learned at CCD about the guy on the beach who was flinging starfish back into the sea. When asked why he was doing such a pointless task he said something like it makes a difference to that one. I think that's about the closest I've been to church in a decade.
Potato Sack Races Are Hard
Picnics are yet another reason why teaching Kindergarten can be the greatest thing in the universe sometimes. We had the annual Spring picnic at Yangjae Park this year. It had been postponed from last week because the weather had been so bad. I made sure to tell of my students to dress appropriately for the weather because the forcast for this Friday was also questionable. Because they all came in sweatsuits and undershirts the temperature was in the upper 70s.
This picnic was much less of a picture taking fiasco than the one that I went on last fall with my other Kinder class. It was really fun to hang out with my kids and get a chance to play with them in a context that doesn't involve phonics. The above picture was actually one of only two group pictures taken this day.
We got to play with Rachel's class and Kyle's class since they're the other two 3rd year Kinder classes. I like a lot of the kids in their classes so it was fun to hang out with them too. We were given a list of game ideas and such but it seemed to rapidly devolve into just Duck, Duck, Goose and run-from-point-A-to-point-B-as-fast-as-possible. Although my favorite game was the jumping contest because Nathan is such an awesome jumper.
then, of course, was lunch. Helen is clearly not a very good chewer. Although I would like to take this time to talk about the love triangle going on on my class. The little boy below (Eric) likes a girl named Claire (she was in my other kindergarten). BUT since Helen joined out class Eric has been giving her presents. Claire still goes to LCI and plays with Eric all the time. In fact, Kate told me that Eric and Claire were planning on getting married. Oh what tangled webs we weave...
the highlight of the day...TUG OF WAR!!!!
My class (combined with Andy's) won the kindergarten tug of war. I am especially proud of this victory because a tournament win was so narrowly snatched from the tiny hands of my kindergarteners last fall. Good job guys!
And, finally, in other news... this is my favorite kid in LCI. His name is Justin. He walks around like he has no bones. He also writes like he has no bones.
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