Friday night I had a date...with 8 korean 13 year olds. You're jealous, I know. I would be too if I were you.
The week before my kiddies came to me asking me to come camping with them. Of course I said yes. The teacher was surprised, and asked me multiple times if I wanted to go. I said yes each time.
So Thursday night, the teacher called to remind me about camping and to bring "spare clothes and a toothbrush" as my students would "prepare the house" for me.
So on Friday, I showed up to school, and the 6th graders came to make sure I was prepared for camping. They were excited that i said I was still coming :)
After lunch came and went, my other students asked if I was coming swimming with them (I usually ride the bus back to Jinan with them) and they were all a little upset that I wasn't going to be on the bus. But, I told them I was going camping with grade 6 and they seemed ok with that.
I hung out at the school until the 6th graders came to get me for CAMPING TIME around 3pm. And here's how it went:
Me & Co-teacher (CT)
The Boys: Mark, Jeep, Alex, Boss
The Girls: Crystal, Brownie, Victoria, Star (she recently changed her name from Christmas)
3:00pm - Boss comes to me "Teacher! Camping time! Let's go!"
I head with Boss downstairs, and the kids are hard at work setting up the tents. They show me where mine is to go, and Jeep and Victoria set it up. It's a single tent, so about the size of me and not much bigger.
4:15pm-ish - Now that my "house" is set up, it's time to prepare for the nights SCARE TEST! WOOOO. I trek up the mountain with Star and Victoria, and we place home made flags near the top. At night, we will break into groups and each group will have to come (in the dark) to retreive a flag.
5:00pm - BBQ Party! Brownie has been hard at work getting dinner set up. She has made rice, ribs, hotdogs, steaks, and pork steaks for the group. I stuff myself silly. The students have a contest to see who gets the last little bit of Chilsung Cider from the bottle. I really wanted to cider, but apparently I had to judge the contest. The contest was "who can say the nicest thing to April Teacher" Ok, I can totally dig that contest!I was told "You're beautiful" "You are strong" "You're eyes are pretty" "You're English is good" - hahaha, I hope my English is good! Brownie wins, I was biased after her banging BBQ skills.
6:00pm - I'M STILL NOT DIGESTED but it's time to play a riveting game of Kick the Bottle. We had no can, so we had to modify it. There was hiding, tagging, kicking, and LOTS of running going on. I pretty much waddle everywhere. I shouldn't have eaten so much.
7:00pm - ICE CREAM SURPRISE! The principal comes by with a few other teachers and they have brought us ice-cream. Luckily, it was coffee flavored to give me some energy for the rest of the games!
7:30pm - Back to Kick the Bottle. After a few more rounds, it's time for JUMP ROPE CONTEST! Since I'm not a student, I'm in charge of being one of the rope rope turners. Not that exciting....I REALLY wanted to introduce double dutch, but I didn't think it would go over too well. Or someone would get hurt - probably me.
8:00pm - Jump Rope was stopped by new people arriving to the campsite. Oh, it's my students' parents! With more food! MORE FOOD?!?!? Watermelon, Steaks, etc. I am in trouble with all this food. I introduced myself to the various family members (in Korean), and avoided the fire pit with the food as it also had Soju and Beer....and I still can't drink due to LASIK.
8:30pm - I've now been given multiple slices of Watermelon, and have eaten them all. I introduce the students to an American tradition - the watermelon seed spitting contest! I rep the Red/White/Blue well and win. I hope spitting isn't offensive. The parents are busy with their alcohol so they probably don't notice either way.
9:00pm - MOVIE TIME! We escape from the parents and head to the library. We have to walk in the dark and they students are already scared. I'm not sure they will bode to well in the SCARE TEST later, but we make it to the library. The students put on Matilda, and LUCKILY it's in English. Boy, am I happy I don't have to watch all my movies through subtitles. I don't know how they put up with subtitles all the time.
11:00pm - Movie is over and I hope it's bedtime. I'm wrong, of course. We say goodbye to the parents and family members and relax by the fire pit for a few minutes to prepare for the SCARE TEST!
11:10pm - SCARE TEST TIME! We break into groups - Victoria is too scared to go (even though she was with us when we set up the flags) so my group is just me and Brownie. The first group is Mark, Alex, and Star. They head off.
11:15pm - Me and Brownie head off with a flashlight. We decide to scare the 1st group as they come back, so we hide in a side street when we see their flashlight. We successfully scare them, YAY! They head back to camp, and Brownie and I continue on to the flags. The hill is steep up to the flags, so I only go halfway up. I make Brownie go the rest of the way, because I'm the teacher and I can do what I want. She comes back down with the flag, and we head back to the campsite. Brownie decides we should pretend there were no flags when we got there. Well, I can't argue with a good idea!
Once we got back, we hid out flag, then told the other groups that the flags were gone. Since the 3rd (and final group) had already left, the 1st group got worried that something had taken the flags! JUST KIDDING! We ran and got our hidden flag, and they thought it was a good joke.
11:40pm-the 3rd group returned, and we all put out flags into the fire and Brownie got to work making late night ramen (they pronounce it Ramyen here) but I was still TOO full from dinner/ice cream to have more food.
12:30am - FINALLY BEDTIME! We all got into our tents and it was lights OUT. I was exhausted, so of course I fell right asleep!
The night day I woke up around 7am (thanks to the sun, and the students waking at that same time) and after a few minutes, I packed up and then got a ride home with Mark's mother.
Camping with my students....not a bad Friday night. It will DEF be one of those memories I keep, being able to meet my students parents, and bonding with the class outside of school.
Ghamsamnidah,
Apes :)
The week before my kiddies came to me asking me to come camping with them. Of course I said yes. The teacher was surprised, and asked me multiple times if I wanted to go. I said yes each time.
So Thursday night, the teacher called to remind me about camping and to bring "spare clothes and a toothbrush" as my students would "prepare the house" for me.
So on Friday, I showed up to school, and the 6th graders came to make sure I was prepared for camping. They were excited that i said I was still coming :)
After lunch came and went, my other students asked if I was coming swimming with them (I usually ride the bus back to Jinan with them) and they were all a little upset that I wasn't going to be on the bus. But, I told them I was going camping with grade 6 and they seemed ok with that.
I hung out at the school until the 6th graders came to get me for CAMPING TIME around 3pm. And here's how it went:
Me & Co-teacher (CT)
The Boys: Mark, Jeep, Alex, Boss
The Girls: Crystal, Brownie, Victoria, Star (she recently changed her name from Christmas)
3:00pm - Boss comes to me "Teacher! Camping time! Let's go!"
I head with Boss downstairs, and the kids are hard at work setting up the tents. They show me where mine is to go, and Jeep and Victoria set it up. It's a single tent, so about the size of me and not much bigger.
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| Jeep making my house! |
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| The boys made their own house - no tent involved! |
5:00pm - BBQ Party! Brownie has been hard at work getting dinner set up. She has made rice, ribs, hotdogs, steaks, and pork steaks for the group. I stuff myself silly. The students have a contest to see who gets the last little bit of Chilsung Cider from the bottle. I really wanted to cider, but apparently I had to judge the contest. The contest was "who can say the nicest thing to April Teacher" Ok, I can totally dig that contest!I was told "You're beautiful" "You are strong" "You're eyes are pretty" "You're English is good" - hahaha, I hope my English is good! Brownie wins, I was biased after her banging BBQ skills.
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| Brownie's cooking at its finest - BBQ party! |
6:00pm - I'M STILL NOT DIGESTED but it's time to play a riveting game of Kick the Bottle. We had no can, so we had to modify it. There was hiding, tagging, kicking, and LOTS of running going on. I pretty much waddle everywhere. I shouldn't have eaten so much.
7:00pm - ICE CREAM SURPRISE! The principal comes by with a few other teachers and they have brought us ice-cream. Luckily, it was coffee flavored to give me some energy for the rest of the games!
7:30pm - Back to Kick the Bottle. After a few more rounds, it's time for JUMP ROPE CONTEST! Since I'm not a student, I'm in charge of being one of the rope rope turners. Not that exciting....I REALLY wanted to introduce double dutch, but I didn't think it would go over too well. Or someone would get hurt - probably me.
8:00pm - Jump Rope was stopped by new people arriving to the campsite. Oh, it's my students' parents! With more food! MORE FOOD?!?!? Watermelon, Steaks, etc. I am in trouble with all this food. I introduced myself to the various family members (in Korean), and avoided the fire pit with the food as it also had Soju and Beer....and I still can't drink due to LASIK.
8:30pm - I've now been given multiple slices of Watermelon, and have eaten them all. I introduce the students to an American tradition - the watermelon seed spitting contest! I rep the Red/White/Blue well and win. I hope spitting isn't offensive. The parents are busy with their alcohol so they probably don't notice either way.
9:00pm - MOVIE TIME! We escape from the parents and head to the library. We have to walk in the dark and they students are already scared. I'm not sure they will bode to well in the SCARE TEST later, but we make it to the library. The students put on Matilda, and LUCKILY it's in English. Boy, am I happy I don't have to watch all my movies through subtitles. I don't know how they put up with subtitles all the time.
11:00pm - Movie is over and I hope it's bedtime. I'm wrong, of course. We say goodbye to the parents and family members and relax by the fire pit for a few minutes to prepare for the SCARE TEST!
11:10pm - SCARE TEST TIME! We break into groups - Victoria is too scared to go (even though she was with us when we set up the flags) so my group is just me and Brownie. The first group is Mark, Alex, and Star. They head off.
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| Scare Test buddies - me and Brownie! |
Once we got back, we hid out flag, then told the other groups that the flags were gone. Since the 3rd (and final group) had already left, the 1st group got worried that something had taken the flags! JUST KIDDING! We ran and got our hidden flag, and they thought it was a good joke.
11:40pm-the 3rd group returned, and we all put out flags into the fire and Brownie got to work making late night ramen (they pronounce it Ramyen here) but I was still TOO full from dinner/ice cream to have more food.
12:30am - FINALLY BEDTIME! We all got into our tents and it was lights OUT. I was exhausted, so of course I fell right asleep!
The night day I woke up around 7am (thanks to the sun, and the students waking at that same time) and after a few minutes, I packed up and then got a ride home with Mark's mother.
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| 6th Grade Camping Trip. |
Camping with my students....not a bad Friday night. It will DEF be one of those memories I keep, being able to meet my students parents, and bonding with the class outside of school.
Ghamsamnidah,
Apes :)
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