In episode 66, it is Christmas time at the school, so the students sing a song they made up, we do some magic tricks, eat vegan food at loving hut, have picture day and a birthday party.
Holidays
C.O. #46 – Christmas 2014
In episode #46, my kindergartners meet Santa Claus.
Kindergarten Writing Presentations: “Halloween”
Only 2 days left until Halloween! I had my students write about what they want to dress up as and why they love Halloween. 
Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year)
Friday, January 31st is known in Korea as Seollal (sounds like Solar.) It is the Korean New Year and school will be closed Thursday January 30th and Friday to observe this holiday. This means we have a 4 day weekend. The tradition is to go visit your grandparents, or just family, and to eat together and play yut nori. Apparently it is such a big holiday that you should not travel on the roads on Friday or Saturday.
Sarah, Rin and I are all going to Seoul Thursday and Friday to enjoy the break.
Also, Episode #10 Itaewon Land Part 2 will be up on Friday, January 31st.
Stay tuned!
C.O. Episode #5 – The Day After New Years
In episode 5 of the c.o. series, I tell a little story about an incident that happened to me while walking around itaewon the night after new years.
Pictures, and some video from new years in a later post!
C.O. Episode #5 on January 5th!
For the first post of 2014, I wanted to hit the ground running. We just got back from a few days in Seoul where I shot a bunch of pictures and video including Episode #5 of the c.o. series, which will be up on January 5th.
Stay tuned!
Christmas in Korea
Christmas was a few days ago but I wanted to take the time to gather all of the pictures together of my take on how Korea celebrates Christmas. This Santa Claus is next door to Indigo where we teach. When you walk by it, the Gangnam style song plays and he dances. I have video that will be a future conleys overseas episode.
In my classes we talked about Christmas and had the students do crossword puzzles and worksheets. We also discussed the differences between Christmas in America and Korea. There are a few things but overall it wasn’t too much different.
I let the students write what they wanted for Christmas on the board.
Sarah had her students color christmas lights and put their names on them.
My students did a lot of Christmas worksheets that helped build their vocabulary words, and I put them up in my classroom.
Here is the tree that is up in the lobby:
The day before Christmas, we had a Christmas party and the students made Christmas cards.
The students also played a bunch of games like jenga and ate snacks.
Some students colored these and gave them to us.
There were various decorations around the school.
Today was our last day of work before the break!
No school until January 6th!
Stay tuned for more!
Happy Holidays!
Top 5 Awfully Good Christmas Movies
To coincide with my “Top 5 Favorite Christmas Movies,” I decided to make a “Top 5 Awfully Good Christmas Movies.” The idea came to me when my friends, Johannes and Sebastian reminded me of a film we watched at their family Christmas in Southern Bavaria several years ago. That film is in the #1 spot. Enjoy!
5. Santa With Muscles (1996)
Hulk Hogan gets amnesia and thinks he is Santa Claus.
4. Jack Frost (1998)
Michael Keaton is a musician who dies in an accident but gets reincarnated as a Snowman because his son played a magic harmonica.
3. Jingle All the Way (1996)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, and Phil Hartman. It seems you couldn’t go wrong with this combination, but they did.
2. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
As if this needed a plot. Christmas is in danger but don’t worry because Ernest comes to the rescue. I couldn’t find a trailer so this is the entire film!
And my #1 Awfully Good Christmas film is:
1. Santa’s Slay (2005)
This film is about a homicidal Santa Claus who goes around murdering everyone!
What are your favorite Awfully Good Christmas Movies?
Leave them in the comments below!
C.O. Episode #4 – Top 5 Christmas Movies
Christmas is only a week away but here in Korea it’s mostly just the one day off with church for the churchgoers. We were feeling a bit nostalgic for the holiday season so I wanted to do an episode on my top 5 Christmas movies.
What are your favorite Christmas movies?
Let us know in the comments below.
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