Every year around this time schools take a break from their normal curriculum to have a festival in honor of Buddhas birthday. That meant no classes after tuesday which is always nice. The first day was sports day for the students. Each class created uniforms in advance and competed in all sorts of events including ping-pong, kickball, soccer, track, tug of war, and the very unusual and funny Pec jok. In this race the kids linked up in a very... awkward proximity to one another. Hopefully there were no...personal discoveries in those races.
The games finished up the next day and that evening a special event was held in the schools gymnasium. It was a show consisting of musical performances, magic tricks, and acting skits done by the students. It also featured a song performed me and four other female English teachers "How Deep is your Love". How I was drawn into this I will never know but I went with it and the song went really well. I am a terrible singer but singing with four other girls really made my voice sound better. Everyone sung the chorus but we divided the lyrics up. I sung the first bit with another teacher and I must say we sounded fantastic! After we finished the other teachers who could actually sing took care of the rest. I thought the chorus sounded okay. It was fun getting up on stage in front of such a large crowd. There was quite a bit of smoke on the stage so for a few seconds there I really felt like a rock star. If I can get ahold of some photos of the actual song I will be sure to put them up.
I spent the rest of the evening hanging out with the other teachers. Although communication is very limited with the exception of the female English teachers, the school appreciates that I stick around and make an effort to socialize. I am making progress learning Korean words but I have a long way to go till I can have a real conversation in Korean.
The games finished up the next day and that evening a special event was held in the schools gymnasium. It was a show consisting of musical performances, magic tricks, and acting skits done by the students. It also featured a song performed me and four other female English teachers "How Deep is your Love". How I was drawn into this I will never know but I went with it and the song went really well. I am a terrible singer but singing with four other girls really made my voice sound better. Everyone sung the chorus but we divided the lyrics up. I sung the first bit with another teacher and I must say we sounded fantastic! After we finished the other teachers who could actually sing took care of the rest. I thought the chorus sounded okay. It was fun getting up on stage in front of such a large crowd. There was quite a bit of smoke on the stage so for a few seconds there I really felt like a rock star. If I can get ahold of some photos of the actual song I will be sure to put them up.
I spent the rest of the evening hanging out with the other teachers. Although communication is very limited with the exception of the female English teachers, the school appreciates that I stick around and make an effort to socialize. I am making progress learning Korean words but I have a long way to go till I can have a real conversation in Korean.
3 comments:
Garrett,
Kickball, soccer and tug-o-war sounded fun. I bet you sang stupendously! Miss you alot, Sarah Ann
Garrett,
I just had my choir concert last week. If I can sing, you can sing. Love, Jack
Great blog - love to know what you are up too. Sounds like a lot of fun. Love you "the old battleship"
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