Last night at camp!

Camp is officially over as of 11:00 today! Last night we had our final events. First, all 12 teams performed their skit. We took known stories or fairy tales and the students learned the lines and made costumes and sets. Ours was The Emporer's New Clothes. Phew, teaching Korean students how to correctly pronounce Emporer is hard, but they got it!

The Emperor

The Emperor is Naked!


We had the Golden Bell quiz competition after that. Two of my students made it into the final round, and one got 4th place overall! The funny thing was that the prizes for the top five students were things like toothpaste and soap :-)

Staff and Bill Gates in the Final Round of Golden Bell

The Emperor in Golden Bell

Next was the homeroom party. We had a cake and other snacks and pigged out on junk food. Mmmm. Eating cake with chopsticks is fun. There was a lot of picture-taking going on. I gave the kids my gifts I had brought from America (American flag slap bracelets! Red White and Blue keychains!) which they loved. We smeared each other with frosting and promised to all e-mail each other.


The Cake!

Mmmm, Let's Eat

Class Picture


After that, we had our final teacher party in the cafeteria. Principal Park was into having all of us dance the Oh Doo Da Day "folk dance," and wanted all of us to sing. Yeah. Then we all went to norae bang (karaoke) for more singing!


Shelly doing the "Folk" Dance

Jesse sing us a song!

Me and My Co-Teacher

Today, we had our Closing Ceremony. Principal Park speaks, for the very first time, clears his throat, talks about our new frontier spirit, and encourages us to love ourselves ;-) Then the teachers line up, and every students comes by and shakes our hand. This is the part that gets so emotional! A lot of the kids are crying, which is really sweet.

Now I'm just packing up, ready to get out of here! We take the bus to Mokpo this afternoon, have dinner with the governor of the province tonight, and head to Busan (a beach town) to start our Korea tour. I'm not sure what the Internet situation will be like once I leave campus, but hopefully I'll be able to get online!!