HALLO-WHAT?

Halloween was a fantastic event here in Korea! The children were so excited to come to school all dressed up, and for once the kids studies went out the window! It was all games, costumes, and trick or treating for October 31st!

My day began as I entered my classroom and saw 4 gorgeous princesses before me, as all the girls wanted to be some sort of a fairy tale princess. All my crazy boys (8 of them....the ratio is so unfair) were dressed up as something very scary or dangerous! We had transformers, Spiderman, ninja's, and then one not so dangerous, more lovable than anything else....witch.

The morning started with journals as usual, and I couldn't help but think that this day was going to be chaos mixed in with hysterics as I turned around and found spidey looking at me like this:

 

I began to laugh so hard I almost had tears in my eyes, but then I reminded myself I could not mess up my Tiger make up! Oh yes, I came to school as a Tiger, and all my kids would NOT STOP pulling on my tail all day. We played fun games like wrapping a classmate up as a mummy and pin the nose on the pumpkin. It was absolutely NUTS in our school with children crazy from all the sugar, whipping around their swords or fairy wands and poking other childrens eyes out! It's also very entertaining to watch a fellow teacher dressed up as a pirate or a detective being completely serious disciplining a child, when they look totally ridiculous. And of course the children kept taking off parts of their costumes and by the end of the day we had no idea what child had the ninja mask and what child had the feather bowa.

 The day ended with trick-or-treating. I was told I HAD TO TEACH my kids "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat." It was my choice whether I wanted to continue the chant and teach them the part about seeing each others underwear. At first, I thought this was a joke, then I realized how serious my boss was, so I figured why not? This day is already bizarre, why not add in an inappropriate American Halloween song for these 6 year olds to learn? So we chanted our way around the classrooms filling up our Halloween bags and the kids went home happy and WIRED!

 

I, on the other hand, went home exhausted....totally and completely exhausted. But it was a chaotic beautiful mess that I will never forget! A Halloween for the books, that's for sure.