Market Day!

About every six months the school has a market day. This involves all of the teachers running a market stall. Most teachers have a food stall, but Trent (as the sole male teacher) was designated as the "game" stall holder. The kids use fake money that they have earnt through the school's merit system.

I chose to make popcorn balls- something that I recalled being easier to make than they were! Popcorn balls = scorching hot sugar/butter mixture poured over popcorn and moulded into balls. Gummy bears inserted when still warm.

Trent's made paper mache volcanoes that the kids had to try and throw balls into. The degree of difficulty of each of the volcanoes varied with the size of it's crater. At the end of the day he made the volcanoes explode (well, at least generate a gentle foam) with a vinegar/baking powder concoction.

Me and my 50 popcorn balls travelling to school on the 2216

Come one, come all... yummy popcorn balls!

Volcano Ball... popular with the lads

(The two kids on the ends are my students, Jessie on the right is always wearing his Tae Kwon Do outfit to class)

This is Christine, she is one of our two Korean co-teachers who teach the same kids that we do. They concentrate on the Korean-English translation and we focus on conversation and pronunciation. For Market Day, Christine sold frozen bananas- a real hit with the kids!

Christine and me at her Banana Sherbet Stall

(Sneaking into the right of the photo is Sharon, one of my students)

This is Annette, our other co-teacher, and her boyfriend Joe. Joe spends his time travelling between Seoul and the USA as his parent's have immigrated there. Annette and Joe's stall sold sundae- a traditional Korean food made of pig's intestines stuffed with noodles and spices. A bit different to the food I can recall eating at school fetes!

Annette, Joe and their sundae

Here are some of the other teachers at our school. Their stalls sold pizza bread, tteok boki (traditional Korean dish of rice cakes in hot sauce) and stationery.

From left, Soon (Maths), Emily (Social Science) and Kelly (Maths)

(Dan in the white is one of Trent's students and Megan on the right is one of mine)

This is Vikki, one of my younger students. Her mum thought it would be a good idea to perm the top of her hair and leave the back straight. After discussions with our Korean co-teachers, we have decided that the mullet is not a good look, even here in Korea.

Vikki and her mullet

Finally, her is a snap of our teacher's room. Seven of us squeeze into this little space to do our prep for class and slump into our seats for the 5-10 minute breather we get between classes.

Christine and Trent in the Teacher's Room