Tomorrow (May 5th) is Children's Day in Korea. It's one of their nine public holidays, and all the students get the day off (depending on the school it could be a few days) and apparently they're spoiled with butt-loads of presents. The parents who also get the day off will spend the day with their children, celebrating...how wonderful they are? I don't know.
At first I thought this was a little ridiculous, but I've come to realise it's one of the few days kids have an entire day to themselves. They're in school/hagwons for pretty much 80% of the day, six (though sometimes seven) days a week. And the kids who are not in school on the weekend are sometimes forced to watch their parents have fun, which is what Tory and I witnessed one Saturday while at the gym. The parents who were involved in a squash tournament brought their children with them, who were forced to watch their parents enjoying themselves while they just sat there, probably daydreaming about something fun.
I wasn't going to do much for my students, but someone kindly reminded me that Teacher's Day, where apparently students (are forced to) give many gifts to their kind teachers, is around the corner, and if I want to be showered with gifts, I should probably put some effort into a Children's Day-related activity. So today my present to all of them was an episode of the Simpson's, followed by People Getting Punched Just Before Eating.
I talk about poo too much
- James
- It states that I can write as little or as much as I'd like. I'd prefer the former, though, as it would seem, I do the latter.
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