Thanksgiving? Really? How surreal. My holidays are going to all be this way here. That's okay; it's just a strange feeling to be able to simply slide passed a holiday that has been a family centerpiece since I can remember.
Two dozen people - at least, Thanksgiving lunch, someone napping on every couch and in every bed, eating a snack, a yearly craft, more snacking, euchre, massive games of Oh Hell (it's a card game), snacking, and finally leaving around midnight.
It's the first Thanksgiving without my grandma...another surreal concept.
The class that usually gives me hell on today days was really great today. They were pretty adorable actually; they really got into the sign language and the Thanksgiving activity today.
Hae Yeon and I had to clean the English Village, because there was a group of teachers coming in for a workshop. My host mom and another parent (the one I went out for Shabu Shabu with) were there helping in the English Village, so they helped us SCRUB the classroom. Hae Yon was angry at lunch when the head of the English department told her about the teachers coming today; it was the first we had heard about it. I could tell something was going down during lunch, but I wasn't sure until after we got back upstairs.
I disappeared after we cleaned; I didn't want to stick around for the workshop, so I went to work on some stuff down in the first grade office. 1-7 teacher helped me make months signs. Every time I make something, she asks if it is for her. LOL! I gave her an extra set of month names that I had printed out and we worked on them together. She had a much more effective way of going about it than I did, AND hers were straight. Now I know!^^
I met the second grade teachers at 5:00PM to go out to eat with them; they were celebrating 2-2's pregnancy. 2-3 teacher felt so bad, because he had invited me to a meat restaurant. Like I've said before, I can always find something. I told him about 5 times not to worry about it; I even busted out the Korean! I still managed to eat a ton...plus cake. I don't even like cake! The cakes here are different; two different ones I've had have had sweet potato in them, and another one was decked out in fruit (apparently tomatoes are considered a cake-worthy fruit in Korea.)
I was home by 7:30PM and my host family got home about an hour later; they had gone out to eat as well.
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