Pepero Day and Open House

Happy Pepero Day, almost Thanksgiving, and end of November!! The past couple weeks have been pretty busy. Our open house was Friday, Pepero Day the Friday before that, and our co teacher left Korea and we are welcoming a new teacher. In the photos below you'll see what Peperos look like, they are basically long skinny breadsticks dipped in chocolate. There are different kinds, chocolate almond covered ones, inside out ones, etc.  Here there is a whole day devoted to them, the equivalent of our Valentine's Day. Kids bring Peperos to school and give them out to each other. We got tons of boxes that day. In my last class of the day the kids were complaining of belly aches because of all the Peperos they ate, it was hilarous, "Ohhhh teachaaaa!! Stomach-uhh!" 

We had open house on Friday and I've been practicing songs for weeks, more like months, with the kids to perform for their parents. It's amazing how they turn from little spaz, crazy monkey monsters to shy, meak little angels when it comes time to sing in front of the parents. At the end of the day they are only 4 and 5, and pretty much adorable, which makes up for their lack of stage presence and the parents always seem elated after their songs. Sally carried the whole performance (what else is new) while donning angel wings and Ryan Lee and Jong Hae upped the cute factor with their red bow ties. 

After school on Friday Brendan and I traveled to Daegu, which is a little over an hour away (same place the body painting festival was) to celebrate his Birthday this coming Tuesday. We took the trip to have a special Birthday dinner at Bennigan's. Yes Bennigan's. This was quite a big deal for us, as Brendan had been dreaming of the Monte Cristo sandwich since we visited Daegu months ago. We had a great time and found a fun anime photo booth similar (but not nearly as cool) to the ones in Japan. 

Next week brings us Brendan's Birthday and Thanksgiving, which we will spend like any other day going to work and eating normal food. This sounds kind of sad and maybe depressing, until you remember after Thanksgiving passes we will have four weeks left in Korea and then we'll be on our way. Oh.Happy.Day.

We miss you, we miss you, we miss you, and are desperately trying not to get overly excited to see you- as we think this will make our time left pass slower. But who are we kidding, we're beyond the overly excited point. 

Some boxes of Pepero. 

I'm not quite sure what word to use to even come close to describing this face. But it is a must post photo. 

Happy Pepero Day!

Action shot from Open House. 

Don't you love Brad's rain coat?

Adorable. You too, Jong Hae. :) 

Silly.

Ryan Lee rocking the bow tie with sweat pants. Typical. 

This is the last photo of Alice and I. Her and Christina are leaving for the U.S. today and won't return until mid January. So sad to see my littlest pup go. She's come so far and my heart broke a little on Friday when I had to say goodbye.

Group shot minus Sally.

Photos from booth in Daegu.