On our way to school...hard to believe only one more week in June!

Kindergarten Open House

O's kindergarten open house was this morning.  He was so excited all week about having us come to his school and see what he does every day.  

Here we are modeling the official "Saemi kid" gym uniform.  

Here O. is with his lovely teacher.

Some of O's artwork.

Clay masterpieces.

Some singing.

Racing to see which parent-child team can eat Peppero sticks the fastest.  Don't think you would see this in the states. 

After reading Hansel and Gretel, each student got their own cardboard house to decorate.

As you can see, O. took this pretty seriously.

However, we soon discovered as we looked around the classroom, we were the only parents to "let" our child decorate all on his own.  This was also some of the only time that the dads were involved in the day's activities.   

Z.'s activities for the day involved getting teethers into her mouth...

and practicing some walking with dad's help.  

Sports Day

Bugil Sports Day...a wonderful riot of color and teamwork, as S.'s students showed the boy's school that girls could indeed hold their own!  Bugil has separate boys and girls schools, but the program that S. teaches in is special in that all the classes are taught in English and both boys and girls attend the same classes.  They are a part of Bugil, but separate.  The "Global Leaders Program" or GLP participated for the first time this year during the boys' Sports Day. 

The kids and I went up to see the second half of the festivities.  There was traditional Korean wrestling, where the GLP boys made it to the semifinals.  

There was tug-of-war where the 11th grade GLP team made it to the finals.  This was an especially big deal since our GLP team consisted of BOTH boys and girls.  Evidently the team that the GLP beat on the way to the finals was particularly disgruntled that they had been beat by a "bunch of girls."  Way to go GLP!

(I didn't get photos of the actual tug-of-war, but our team is in the sky blue on the left)

And there were speeches.  Long speeches in Korean where the students had to line up and stand very still.  For a long time. Without moving. At all. Which is when O. started looking at grass.

And because you need a close up of the GLP uniform, and a pic of the baby....