Sun-am Sports Day

Sports day is AWESOME! It's nothing like track and field day, which is what I was expecting. At Korean sports day there are coreographed dances, organized games, relay races, songs, stretches. And an audience of parents and grandparents who have taken the day off work. And its all been practiced several times the week before. I took TONS of pictures so you can feel like you were there too.

Some group stretching before sports day officially begins

The 5th and 6th grade girls did a dance

With some drums

The PA system was somebody holding a microphone in front of a boom box. I expect better technology out of this country

1st grade races

A variation of "clean up your backyard" except they don't just draw a line on the ground - they make 2 people stand in the middle and hold a sheet. They definitely got hit with a lot of balls

Kindergarten dance! They dressed up like sparkly elves. It was adorable

1st and 2nd graders had to push these big, not-so-round balls around

This was my favorite game! It had 3 parts

Step 1: Blow up balloons

I helped

Step 2: Put them in a bag...

...and run around with it

Step 3: Pop the balloons!

2nd grade umbrella dance

Grandparents played the fishing game

This is vice principal and principal. Principal is on the right

This is Dong-uk. He spent most of the day squishing ants

Kiddos

 This guy had a HUGE pile of candy wrappers on the bench next to him. He spent a lot of time eating, and not a lot of time running

Koreans are TERRIFIED of the sun! They think pale skin is beautiful. It was 70 today, and every single Korean was wearing pants, long sleeves, gloves, and a hat/visor that covers the entire face. I was the only one in short sleeves, and people kept trying to cover me up. I told them I want to be tan, and they laughed

Whole school standing at attention. They're like little soldiers

Group stretching after all the activities

People who did zero activity all morning participated in the stretching. I didn't think that was necessary, so I took pictures of them instead.

I had so much fun today! I mostly hung out and took pictures. There were a few games where kids had to run into the audience - one time a bunch of kids gave me a hug and said I was beautiful. That was fun. Another time I had to run around the track with a boy. Most of the kids went home with their parents after sports day was done, so I decided to make English class a movie day. The best part about all this is that I get to do it at my other school on Thursday :)