Halloween - Korean Style

Halloween is not a holiday celebrated here in Korea so at my school we decided to take a day and have halloween lessons/parties. The youngest kids (kindergarten and preschool) got to make halloween masks and go 'trick or treating' by knocking on the door of the classroom with me on the outside. And the older kids had reading exercises about halloween and a fun vocabulary activity. When asked what halloween was before had one kid said 'candy day' which is correct :P
Here are some pictures of the kids with their masks or working on the crossword.
7 year old class with their masks.
Preschool class (4-7 yrs old)
One of the 5 yr olds with her ghost mask.
3 6-year-old frankensteins
Working hard at coloring the jack-0-lantern mask so we can go trick or treating. After the preschool class finished their masks we went to the other classrooms and knocked on the door saying Trick or Treat.
One of my level 3 boys working on the halloween crossword
The other 2 level 3 boys. (The girls of this class didn't want their picture taken... so only the boys)

Edible Hand warmers

I have discovered Edible hand warmers in Korea. They are a pastry sold on the street that are quite yummy and if you stick them in your pocket and stick your hands in they keep your hands nice and toasty. They are fish shaped pastries filled with a red bean paste. Unfortunatly they are only sold in the afternoon/evening so i dont have the hand warmers/breakfast in the mornings :(

Yummy!

Passion, Jubilee and great Friends

A few weekends ago I was able to go to Seoul with Amy to attend the Passion Seoul Conference. I got off work early so we could get into Seoul for the start of the conference but we had some adventures getting there and got to Olympic park at 9ish instead of 7:30.
Our route from Asan to Passion was a taxi to Cheonon KTX station. KTX train to Seoul station. Metro around Seoul (getting kinda turned around and running through multiple subway stations). Taxi from metro stop to olympic park. Power walking around entire olympic park to the right side of the park where everything was happening. As my dad would say we didnt get lost - just had adventures :P.
We got there in time for Louie Giglo to speak and to hear Chris Tomlin play a little bit. Headed out for another adventure in Seoul travel (finding our hotel). This one was my fault because I hadnt printed out the actual addres to the hotel, just the psudo directions from the metro stop. So Amy had to stop and ask some guys where it was and we got in another taxi to get there. After collapsing in bed for the night we got up the next morning ready for Matt Redman and David Crowder.
Saturday morning we got up and were back on the metro to head back to Olympic park. On the subway we met 2 AMAZING girls who we quickly became good friends with. (Love yall!) Saturday was another great day with Matt Redman, David Crowder and Chris Tomlin all rocking on stage. All the speakers were tuned into the Korean culture and problems that Korean youth face today. Also had fun rocking out during lunch break at a 14 couple wedding. (yes 14 couples getting married at one big wedding type thing). Saturday afternoon we had a 3 hr break so I got to explore around Olympic park and get some coffee before getting in line to go back inside. There were people who sat inline for the entire 3 hours to get the good seats once we were let inside.
Took the bus back to Asan Sunday morning with the invite to come back up to Seoul to go to Jubilee Church with Choua and Pajai.
So this Sunday I went back up to Seoul on the express bus to go to church with them. The day was an amazing God filled day of church and then hanging out with friends. After church we went to a Thai resturant in Itaewon (after a taxi ride rollarcoster through seoul) and then went off shopping for a few hours before heading home for sleep.
I am so thankful that God gave me these wonderful friends in Korea.

Pictures from Passion Seoul:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039848&l=29b28&id=55500987
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039847&l=de868&id=55500987
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039846&l=de868&id=55500987
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039845&l=de868&id=55500987