A month Come and Gone...

I cannot believe how the time flies! I realized it was time to update the blog, and what do you know, I am two weeks late! Before giving you a quick overview of the last month - I do want to share that I will be coming home for the Christmas Break!!!! (It just makes sense to take my flight home now, and have a full month during summer to travel and see the world).

I will be in Houston from December 18-25 (two COR services!) and in Melbourne from December 26-30. Flying back out from Houston on January 1st at 6:00am. What a way to bring in the new year - on a 17 hour flight...
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We had a Halloween Carnival, where everyone got to dress up and celebrate!

I was a Rihanna "Rock Star"... Obviously! :)

Costume of the CENTURY!

And the cutest couple costume award goes to... The W's!

95% of our students wore their pajamas as costumes... Yes, they do where these throughout the year as their pajamas - very interesting.

Our Middle School advisory groups created booths for the other students to walk through and participate. Booths ranged from beanbag tosses to stick your hand in a box and guess what is inside, from face paintings to fortune telling. My group created pumpkin piñatas, but with many unsuccessful attempts at hanging our paper-mache, candy-filled creations from strings and jump-ropes, we went through a variety of ways to break open the pumpkins. 

The formation and creation

The stuffing and finalization...

The promotion...

We started off with soccer-style kicks, which came to a quick halt when one of the kicks produced an explosion of candy that landed on many of the near standing Korean mothers! Then, two of my girls decided that punching the pumkins on the ground was the way to go… I am just grateful that no broken wrists or knuckles were a result! Certainly a successful booth, we were through all 23 of our pumpkins within 30 minutes of the 2-hour carnival!

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Pepero day has come and gone. 11-11-11. This is a Korean holiday (each year on the 11^th of November) that is similar to our American Valentines day, but instead of giving little hearts with cheesy saying on them to your crush, you give chocolate covered breaded sticks. I do not doubt that many students had aching bellies that evening!
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Also, on Pepero Day, our Service Leading committee successfully completed our first Service Leading afternoon activity! Our middle school advisory groups created themed stations and then hosted and educated our Elementary homerooms about some of the important issues that we have been discussing over the past month and a half, including Teamwork, Respect and Responsibility, Service Leading, and Bullying. Overall, I think it was a pretty big success and I was super impressed with the creativity that came from these stations when the students were given such a limited amount of time to come up with ideas and pull it off. Woo hoo! Our first KIS Service Leading Experience is officially part of KIS History!

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Jeju was named One of the Seven New Wonders of the World! http://www.new7wonders.com/ I haven’t even tapped into 2% of this island, but I can easily see how it has garnered this title. My goal over the next month and half, before it gets too incredibly cold, is to get off campus more often and see what the island has to offer, even if just a bike ride from my room!

Signing off with Peace Signs - talk, and maybe SEE, you soon!