Field Trip with the students....

This month we had our second field trip of the year. Our first field trip was to the Eric Carle Exhibit in Seongnam Arts Center. It was pretty great for the students as well as the teachers. This field trip was a little different. We got to see an English musical called "Cloud Bread" (that is the English translation from Korean). The korean name is, phonetically, kurumbang. I tried to write it in Hangul but I can't figure it out on my computer. Anyways, it's a popular TV show in Korea I think, and the kids knew what it was. In my opinion, it was pretty lame, but it had pretty lights and music so the kids dug it. I was mostly excited for the field trip because it was a time for me to get away from the school and have fun with the kids. No books, no pencils, just excitement; which is what a 5 year old should be experiencing. Also, the next day was our Teacher's Field Trip. But more on that later.....

The musical was about 2 creatures, I think they are cats, who are sad because they want to play but it is raining outside. They make friends with some raindrops, who tell them about cloud bread, which is a special kind of bread from the clouds. The two cats go home and promise to play with the raindrops the next day. While they are about to leave, a weird spider creature grabs one of the raindrops. The cats help the raindrop, so as a gift, the raindrops visit them at their home and bring them some cloud bread. The cats show their mom and  she decides to make some cloud bread. It is almost ready, and their father wakes up and is late for work. They want to give him bread, but it's not ready yet and he has to leave. The bread is finally done, so they eat it and they can magically fly. SO they fly to their father who is waiting for his bus to work, and give him bread, and they all fly in the air.......in my head, they ate some special bread and started hallucinating that they were flying. That's totally what they were portraying to the adults. It was quite comical. After the musical, we were rushed back to school, given lunch to eat, and the kids watched Shrek 3 until home time. It was a perfect fun day!

These are some pictures of the field trip to Garden 5 to see "Cloud Bread" and a preview (in Korean) of the show.

Sarah and Candy doing some Korean poses.

Lonnie and Ryan....ballin'.

June, the cutest little genius.

Ashley and Aaron, aka mini Joseph Gordon Levitt

Sarah and Candy making some faces for the camera

Waiting for the elevators....over 100 students and only 3 elevators in a 10 story shopping mall.

3/5 boys, waiting for the show to start.

Ryan

Walking through the rain, back to the buses. They held onto their partners the whole time!

Back at school.

This is Garden 5. The theater is on the top floor overlooking this courtyard. At night, it lights up in many different colors and patterns.