Masterpiece!

I apologize for not updating my blog in like a month...

Over a month ago, some of my students approached me while I was sitting at my desk. "Teacher! Can we take pictures of you?" I immediately look around the teachers' room in hopes of finding some explanation. One of my co-teachers told me: "They are doing an art project...so they want to take a picture of you. Is that ok?" My response: "Um...ok..."  My co-teacher nodded her head to the students and all of a sudden, a million camera phones pop out of nowhere and all I hear is snap! snap! snap! snap! For that minute, I felt like a celebrity who just got ambushed by the paparazzi!

Weeks went by and there was no sign of any student having an "art project." So I began to wonder if they had lied and it was just an excuse for them to take my picture (I wondered how many students had my picture as their wallpaper on their cell phones)...I was wrong...well I was wrong about thinking that the students had lied about having an art project. Not long after I made the assumption my students were lying, I saw the MASTERPIECE! A student had drawn a picture of me! And it was shown at the school's talent show!

 

My whole school saw this MASTERPIECE!  There were 3 comments that stood out above the rest...

1. My beauty mark!
2. My eyeliner!
3. She did such a great job!

 

The girl who drew the picture is in one of my English classes. After the the talent show, my co-teacher pointed her out to me during class. She is very shy and quiet, so I thought she was going to throw it away (since she didn't acknowledge me when I saw her).  But my co-teacher told me that she wanted to give it to me...sure enough a week later she gave it to me as a present (she added some things to it)! I was so honored she gave it to me I almost cried! I gave her a HUGE hug and thanked her (I may have freaked her out, haha). I will keep it forever...at least I plan to.

1st Halloween in Korea: Richard Simmons 80's Workout Crew!!!

Halloween festivities came quicker than I thought...My group of friends came up with the idea to be Richad Simmon's workout crew...CIRCA 1980's. We went costume searching on Tuesday (the Halloween pub crawl was on Sat)...some of us found amazing pieces (Blondie sweatshirt, gold leggings, etc.) in downtown Daegu...not me of course. So the next day I bought a sweatshirt on impulse at Emart (similar to USA's Walmart)...it was stupid.  Its now a "home sweatshirt."  A "home sweatshirt" is a sweatshirt I wear at home and will NEVER leave the house in.  Its purposes now are to sleep in, lounge in, clean in...it might end up becoming a mop if I run out of Swiffer sheets and am too lazy to go to the store to buy more...

ANYWAYS...I ended up finding all the pieces to my costume at local markets that Thursday. 

Costume:

• Bright colorful leopard sweatshirt: 15,000 Won
• Pink and gold glitter leg warmers: 6,000 Won
• Sweatbands (wrist and headband): 2,000 Won
• Mike Grillo showing up as Richard Simmons: PRICELESS

 

Note: one member was MIA...missing in action. Good times...