birthday party!

Every month at my school we have birthday party! It is a big celebration that all our kindergarten students get to be apart of. In July, three of my kids celebrated their birthdays! I took pictures like crazy because they are the cutest little things ever... and birthday party in general is super adorable.

This is Lina and it was her birthday! I took so many pictures of her because she's the cutest little girl ever. In fact, I'm already thinking of all the ways I can pack her in my bag and take her home with me. :)

This little ham is Caden, it was his birthday too. I would like to draw your attention to the bow tie. For future reference, if I have a little boy he will be constantly be wearing bow ties because its ridiculously adorable.

This is Sophie, look at her super awesome crown, what a cute little princess.

Here are all three of our birthday kiddo's and Anne teacher. Anne teacher is my Korean co-teacher. She is so amazing and wonderful, I am so lucky to have such a great teammate at school.

Here's a close up with caden. OMG, bow tie. Cute. Cute. Cute.

After the birthday party in the gym we go back to the classroom and the kids get to enjoy massive amounts of treats and all the students get presents. For real, look at this present overhaul!

Look at that! I cant believe the massive amounts of presents these kids get.

Presents galore for Lina. She's so cute.

Anna, Sophie and I

At the party many things happen. They sing (which you will see later), they get awards, and the birthday kids stand on a stage while everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to them. Now you can get a view of the table of treats and cake, which they get to go back to the classroom and indulge in all these crazy treats. Yes, the teachers get to indulge too.... all while watching a Disney movie in the class.

Awe, what a crazy cute kid. Plus she's really smart and incredibly funny. Every morning when I ask her how she is she comes up with the funniest things to say and the day before birthday party I asked her what she wanted to eat at birthday party in which she responded with "Sarah teachers eyes" and proceeded to have the biggest belly laughing fit ever. I laughed alto too because after that every student chose a different part of my body to eat at birthday party. No need to fear my body is still in tact.

Hahahaha he is forever sticking his tongue out in photos. Love him.

Sophie's baller dress.  

She won a prize for being the "most improved" in the month of July. She's such a smarty. She just began at our school and is already speaking English like a champ. Way to go Sophie!

Kisses for Caden

Here is Caden and Jay. Such awesome little men.

Aweeeee, Ashley and Lina. Ashley Thompson, this little Ashley reminds me of you because she has some killer wit and lots of charm.... and you share a name!

At birthday party if you have a student who is celebrating a birthday you spend the month preparing the students to perform a song. Anne teacher taught the kids this one. It is "Today is Monday" which is an Eric Carle book that has been made into a song. The kids sing it infront of the other classes while doing choreography. Its pretty darn wonderful. I was so proud of my little ones, they did such a good job!

 

Jay being Jay.

Audrey always has the most impressive bows.

Oh, there's that tongue again.

Trying to smile... but it looks like a pretty epic frown.

Bow tie!

For real I want to steal this kid. She's so awesome.

Mud fest!

WELCOME TO MUD FEST! This is an amazing festival that Korea throws every year. Apparently Mud Fest started as a beauty festival in the early 1990's because the mud has beautifying properties and its good for your skin. Somehow it turned into a pretty crazy party! These are pictures of the "mud zone" it wad full of blow up bouncy houses, slides, wrestling pools, mud pools, and obstacle courses.

 

Here are the crazy slides.

 

Lol, Oh Korea, you had to rise your feet off before entering the mud pool. :)

Here is the obstacle course, you can see a few people in action.

This is the line waiting for the course. Look at all the people covered in mud!

The beginning of the obstacle course. This is where I ripped my dress when I went through it. Don't worry I was wearing my swimsuit. But as soon as I went through that little hole both straps came tearing right off. I still did kinda good in the race... I wasn't last! :p

Here's more of the fest. What a muddy good time!

People trying to shower off the mud. Why didn't they just jump in the beautiful, warm ocean?

Here Danielle and I are before the mud!

This one is a bit fuzzy but it shows the mud pretty well.

Here's the group we were hanging out with! Kayla and I were still pretty muddy but Danielle and Rafael jumped into a mud pool and amazingly it cleaned them off a little.  

Danielle and I!

A muddy selfie! :p

By the Mud plaza rock.

Another selfie.

Last selfie. I'm so crazy happy that I made it to mud fest! What a great weekend! After we went to the mudzone we headed down to the ocean to rise off. The water felt wonderful, like warm bath water and the waves were huge. It made me think of the wave pools at Noahs Arc except this shit was real! Lol.

After cleaning off we were walking back to our Pension and we came to a giant beach dance party! I felt like I was on set for a Rihanna video. There were about 300 people dancing to a big DJ while we were being sprayed with water from some hoses. It was for real awesome. You all know how much I enjoy dancing and whipping my hair back and forth.

 

Here Danielle and I are enjoying our night. We drank quite a bit which besides the mud is the point of mud fest. This was our awesome hangout spot on the roof. Here I had some good banter, drinking fun and an inappropriate game of "Never Have I Ever". I made some new friends and it was one of their birthdays! We celebrated that one quite well. I also met a man from Wisconsin that was defiantly drinking "wisconsibly".

Here are my really shitty pictures of the fireworks. Believe me they really do not do them any kind of justice. Korea always does it big! The fireworks were synchronized to music. One of the songs was old school Mariah. Oh god. I was in heaven.

 

This is where we stayed. This is called a Pension. It wasn't the greatest accommodations I've ever had. This isn't the exact room and its through a screen window because the cranky Korean owner wouldn't let me go back in after 11... which was check out time so I guess I understand. A pension is just a  room. No bed. You sleep on the floor. Its also run like a hostel so you share a room with people you came with or random people. Since Danielle and I didn't know any one we stayed with random people. These people were not the greatest, in fact the kinda sucked. When I finally got back to the pension in the morning to sleep, yes I said morning because I came home when the sun was rising. I couldn't find a pillow, mean while one of the douchebags had 2, one for his head and one in between his legs. Oh believe me, I woke him up by yelling "IM GONNA GET IRATE! THIS DOUCHEBAG HAS 2 PILLOWS (he wakes up) GIVE ME A PILLOW, Thank you." Then I promptly slept for a total of 2 hours. Woot Woot. Yay, mud fest.