Being famous...

"Life is like a roller coaster, it might be scary but in the end you want to do it again."

     In February, Korea and most of Asia celebrate Lunar New Year.  Its a holiday to pay your respects to your ancestors and spend time with family.  Since we aren't Buddhist and don't have family in Korea, we used these days off to go to Korea's Disney World called Everland.  Because of the holiday, Everland knew there would be few Koreans going to the park so over the holiday they had half price tickets for foreigners.  We went on Lunar New Year Day.  It turned out to be the perfect day, the park was practically empty!  

Just like in Disney the park is made up of different themed areas.  Unlike Disney every single detail has not been thought of.  Everland is like Disney's knock-off cousin.  

In one part they had a garden that had a miniature version of Everland.  

Half of the park is a zoo and one of the rides is a safari where you ride a bus and it drives through the animals.  At first it was cool but then we got to the lions and tigers.  Now I know there are Siberian Tigers that live in the mountains but most tigers are from jungles.  The lions and tigers looked super unhappy and frail in the cold and snow and some of them were doing that sad pacing thing animals do in zoos.  Then we got to the bears and the bus driver threw treats to them if they did tricks.  Overall extremely sad zoo.  

However the rides and animal hats made up for the sad zoo!

Our students always come to school with small stuffed animals attached to their headbands.  Now we know where they get them from.











On the train ride to Everland, a girl came up to us and asked us if we would be willing to be in her student film.  Of course we said yes to after our day at Everland we met her at the film studio at her university.

Our entire part was to sit on this box and turn around to look in the camera.  

After they filmed our part, the students took us to the fancy room with all the knobs and buttons to watch the film they were making.  Unfortunately there were no English subtitles but we think we understood they basic plot. 

 Unfortunately they did not use any of us in the final movie but we did end up in the credits.  Gabby for some reason was the 8th person credited and her part is listed as "foreigner" 

Lindsey and I were way at the bottom and credited as "whoeover helped"

   This will go down as the weirdest day In Korea so far.  Who knew I would ever film a Korean movie?


February has also been the month of birthdays in Korea.  We celebrated Beth and Lindsey's birthdays.

Lindsey was super excited to try out a norebang.  These are all the rage in Korea and involve getting a private room to sing karaoke in.  Its super weird but also super fun.  

We also had the pleasure/misfortune of going to poo poo land, yes it is a real thing.  A whole museum/interactive playground dedicated to poo.

Korea has a weird fascination with poo.  

To exit poo poo land you had to go down this beautiful pink slide.  Also side note the things we are squatting over on the right are squat toilets.  These are still very prevalent in Korea and I'm quite proud that I can now confidently use one.  

This photo opportunity was supposed to be a Korean king and Queen Elizabeth standing beside a weird squat toilet.  

Lindsey was super excited by the whole experience.  

Besides the weird poo poo experience we also had a great brunch.

This was the last birthday party of the school year and we only had one birthday girl, Yujin.

Tuesday is graduation for our kindergarteners.  They will come to school Wednesday and Thursday but then they will be finished.  My snowy owls will be off to elementary school.  I am super excited to start fresh with new students and to decorate my classroom!