My first class didn't show up today. Hmm....normally I would call; today, I did not! I assumed they were busy. I went through the next two classes playing BINGO. The kids love it!
After school, I waited for the head of the English dep't and Hae Yeon to come help me figure out what exactly I'm supposed to be emailing to the head of the English dep't. They want a copy of all my PowerPoints. I'm not incredibly sure why. Anyway, they didn't show up, so I went downstairs to visit the first grade teachers. They told me that there were Korean games going on in the gym at 3PM.
I went down there, and it was definitely the teachers from each grade on teams competing against each other. Ha! I was on the 1st grade team. The name of the game is Yut Nari. You have four sticks, and you move around a board with two pieces per team depending on whether the sticks land face up or face down. 1 face down = 1 space, 2 face down = 2 spaces, 3 face down = 3 spaces, 4 face down = four spaces + another throw, and 4 face up = 5 spaces + another throw. Also, if you land on the same space as another team, they are kicked off of the board, and you get another throw. The game goes until one team has both pieces around the board and off.
Our team was NOT good, but it was fun. It was great seeing the teachers get into it; it's a game from their childhood, so it was cute seeing them compete and trash talk.^^
After the games, we had a raffle drawing. A lot of the prizes were...um...more for older people. Luckily, when my name came up...I got a huge box of Jeju tangerines!! I was super psyched!!
Hee and I went to Emart afterward to pick up supplies for my Winter Class. I'm having a pancake breakfast with one of the grades and a Christmas themed party with the other two grades. We then went to get my picture taken for the yearbook. Apparently, it was done during Monday or Tuesday when I was in China, so Hee was nice enough to take me to the studio. We also asked the guy if he would take visa pictures for me; he said he would do it for free. How sweet!^^
I headed home after that, because Hee had to go back to school and get some work done. She's always so busy; I wish we could have spent more time together!
Oh, I also gave out all of the China gifts today. It's so awkward giving gifts in Korea! You have to make sure it goes in the right order of seniority, and since there are two vice principals, I had make sure that they would be in relatively the same location so one didn't get a present way before the other one. You also have to make sure that the principal's gift looks nicer (it doesn't actually have to be nicer as long as it looks nicer) than the vice principals' and the other teachers.
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