Happy Halloween! It is not a holiday that is celebrated by anyone
but the foreigners in Korea. And the English academies. All of our
kindergartners came to school in costumes today and we got to have a
Halloween party with them. My "costume" was an athlete/coach, or an excuse to wear sweats to work. Each class went to the different classrooms
to go "trick-or-treating" and we all went to the playground where the
kids got to have a scavenger hunt to find the candy. The English
academy is the only place the kids will get to do trick-or-treating
though. They will not go knocking on every door in their 34 floor
apartment buildings while wearing their costumes tonight. There was a
small section advertising Halloween candy when we went to the store last
night, but I must say it was significantly smaller than the section
advertising Spam gift sets during the Korean holiday Chuseok last month!
But the kids seemed to have a lot of fun dressing up and getting A LOT
of candy at school today. Of course my class had to be the ones to discover that it was much easier to enjoy the candy without the vampire teeth in their mouth. The elementary students that we teach in the
afternoon were definitely disappointed that they did not get to dress
up and go trick-or-treating, especially the ones that remembered it from
kindergarten last year. Fortunately, all the teachers still had some
candy leftover for them to have (if they said "trick-or-treat").
Side
note: Our landlord is actually a taxi driver on the Yongsan Military
Base here. He has started bringing us a copy of the newspaper that is
available on the base which was advertising A LOT of trick-or-treating,
haunted houses, pumpkin carving activities for the families that live on
base. We sure wish we could have taken the little kids out for some
real trick-or-treating or pumpkin carving! But I guess Halloween, like
many other "American" things, is a holiday that hasn't spread very far
off of the military base area.
Here are a few pictures from kindergarten...
A princess and a devil (Elizabeth and Jayden)
We decided that if Jacob had some glasses he would look just like an Asian Harry Potter!
Eric Teacher and his class
Trick-or-treating at school
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