Chuseok Celebration at school!

"Chew sock" or the Full Moon Harvest, honoring of ancestors holiday... basically Thanksgiving because everyone goes to their grandparents' houses in the country to eat food and be with family, but then there's also the wearing of hanbok (or traditional Korean dress) and weeding ancestors' graves and then bowing to the graves, and spinning in a circle holding hands. It's pretty awesome, mainly because the kids dressed up at school today and they looked so gosh darn adorable!! The boys looked like little Aladdin's and the girls looked like princesses - it was great. I have some videos to share from the school festivities.

After the fun upstairs, we made songpyeon (chewy rice cakes) downstairs in the classroom... I'll add pictures in another post because blogger is being weird about adding type...

**The videos messed up the typing at the bottom, so sorry about that...

Here is one of the boys learning and practicing the bow:

Here's a video of Ganggangsulla, or a Korean circle dance:

I especially love the kid spin-dancing at the end. His name is Top and he's in Briana's class, and he's ka-razy and awesome!

Here's the kids playing tug of war... traditional? Sure...:

And finally, London Bridges, because no holiday celebration is complete without it, right? PS, I totally forgot how to play and didn't capture a child the first round, but we made up for it:

We get Thursday in addition to Friday off!! YAY!!! So, Colleen, Andrea, Morganne and I are flying to Jeju Island (or Cheju-do) to get in a little sightseeing and ocean time and waterfalls and majestic countryside, and it should be pretty great, and I'm really excited to ride on a plane with multiple friends because I've never done that before, and to not have to work for two days!! Also, it's little Eric's birthday on Friday, but we celebrate tomorrow because we don't have school Friday =ing CAKE!! YAY!! So, that's fun, y'know?