Monday was a half-day at my school, and it was also "hanbok day" for the kids. I'm thinking Canadian schools don't have a hanbok day, so the uniqueness of the event is worth a post. Hanbok is the traditional Korean dress, and with the big Chuseok holiday falling over the next three days, it was a fun day for our students to dress up. All the boys showed up in satin MC Hammer pants and the girls wore elaborate dresses that made them beg for more AC all day. Even my co-teacher dressed up (she had to). It was all very cute and I kind of wished I had a hanbok to wear too.
After an extensive photo shoot, we made traditional rice cakes and then folded up some origami hanboks.
Jamie got all the kids to bow to me, which I personally think they should do more often.
It seemed like our school day was over as quickly as it began- I think 9-12 might be my ideal work schedule- and I was free to go home and meet Mel (who had a
dentist appointment) and we went to Incheon Airport to catch our flight to Beijing. After we'd checked in and security made sure that we didn't have any dangerous hair gel in our bags we wandered around to get something to eat. We weren't walking around for long before a parade of traditionally dressed Koreans marched through the hallways giving everyone a bit of a show, which was cool but
how did that guy get a sword through security?!! Surely this exposes a major flaw in the passenger screening at ICN.
After eating we headed towards our gate. We were really early because we'd made excellent time getting out of the city so we thought we'd read and relax before the flight. Just outside our gate we noticed there was a room that had been set up for the holiday where foreigners could try some traditional Koreanish things for free. You could practice calligraphy, play a game that looked a lot like hackey sack, or have a HANBOK PHOTO SHOOT. The airport should always offer this amazing service! Is there a better way to kill time before a flight? We looked into doing a hanbok photo shoot in Insadong once and the studio charged over $50 for a single 4x6 so we passed. So, with our pictures snapped our hanbok-themed day came to an end and we were ready to catch our plane to China to see a great wall, some weird food and some even weirder people. I'll have to get some pictures up soon...
Monday was a half-day at my school, and it was also "hanbok day" for the kids. I'm thinking Canadian schools don't have a hanbok day, so the uniqueness of the event is worth a post. Hanbok is the traditional Korean dress, and with the big Chuseok holiday falling over the next three days, it was a fun day for our students to dress up. All the boys showed up in satin MC Hammer pants and the girls wore elaborate dresses that made them beg for more AC all day. Even my co-teacher dressed up (she had to). It was all very cute and I kind of wished I had a hanbok to wear too.
After an extensive photo shoot, we made traditional rice cakes and then folded up some origami hanboks.
Jamie got all the kids to bow to me, which I personally think they should do more often.
It seemed like our school day was over as quickly as it began- I think 9-12 might be my ideal work schedule- and I was free to go home and meet Mel (who had a dentist appointment) and we went to Incheon Airport to catch our flight to Beijing. After we'd checked in and security made sure that we didn't have any dangerous hair gel in our bags we wandered around to get something to eat. We weren't walking around for long before a parade of traditionally dressed Koreans marched through the hallways giving everyone a bit of a show, which was cool but how did that guy get a sword through security?!! Surely this exposes a major flaw in the passenger screening at ICN.
After eating we headed towards our gate. We were really early because we'd made excellent time getting out of the city so we thought we'd read and relax before the flight. Just outside our gate we noticed there was a room that had been set up for the holiday where foreigners could try some traditional Koreanish things for free. You could practice calligraphy, play a game that looked a lot like hackey sack, or have a HANBOK PHOTO SHOOT. The airport should always offer this amazing service! Is there a better way to kill time before a flight? We looked into doing a hanbok photo shoot in Insadong once and the studio charged over $50 for a single 4x6 so we passed. So, with our pictures snapped our hanbok-themed day came to an end and we were ready to catch our plane to China to see a great wall, some weird food and some even weirder people. I'll have to get some pictures up soon...
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