In total, 51 kids showed up for the night stay. We were divided into teams with one korean teacher, one foreign teacher, and 7-9 kids. This is my team. Justin, Tom, Rose, Anna, Alice, Amy, Peter, Chloe, back row and then front row from left to right. We all got together and had to decide our team name, and then decorate a poster. It took me and my partner teacher Lisa a long time to goad the kids into choosing a name. They didn't like any of my great suggestions. One of our kids said team A+, so we went with it. Then we decorated a sign, and got our kids into our assigned room.
Our kids laid their mats out for sleeping on, and we played a few Korean games (think like duck duck goose) in a circle while we were waiting for their dinner to be ready. Dinner was a rooftop bbq. They had tiny stoves and were laying down strips of what the kids told me was "Pig Belly" on them. Looked like bacon to me. Then they'd wrap them in giant lettuce leaves, put spicy sauce on them and stuff em in. Delicious, apparently. There was watermelon too, that was delicious, factually. 
After supper we played a lot of games with the teachers, we did charades and the winners of each game would win prizes. The kids had a good time laughing at the teachers doing the charades. Then we went back to our room and had to come up with an idea for a talent show. We ended up doing the can-can while one of our girls played it on the ocarina. Thats right folks, the can-can is an international language. Ive no pictures of it (I was a little busy at the time) But I'll give you a video of the winner of the single talent show portion of the event. Joanne danced to a korean pop song. It seems the more risqué the dance is, the more the parents want their kids to learn it. That's all for now. Next week - Mudfest. I encourage everyone to take a look at the pictures on the wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boryeong_Mud_Festival I will soon be that guy with the hobo-sized bottle of beer. Can't wait.
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