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[n3ptne]

Yeh so, I really like my school, the owners, my coworkers (all korean) and the kids. Last week I cooked something and brough it in so they could try western food since they're always buying lunch.

This week the school is doing a halloween thing, deocrations all over the school that are psuedo-scary, the kids are dresing up on monday... so last night i got drunk and bored so i bought a couple big pumpkins.

printed up a design off the web (a ghost (even put the hanguel word at the bottom), and "happy halloween" in 'scary' letters) traced it on with a marker, cut it out, roasted up the seeds and brought em in to the school....

holy shit... it was like i brought in an original picasso, apeshit isnt even the right word... took about an hours worth of work and 20$. never seen kids so excited... gotta dress to impress

[Yu_Bum_suk]

For two of my vocational classes I brought in pumpkins and at the end of the lesson we made jack-o-lanterns. It was the first time any of them had done it and were they ever chuffed. I spend a total of W6,500 on pumpkins and candels. Oh and W2,000 on a taxi to bring 20kg of pumpkins to the school.

The little things that can just make Koreans so delighted...

[Alan_Partridge]

I made my first ever jack-o lantern yesterday!! (halloween isn't such a big thing for me back home) Did a not bad job of it either!
Tried to get the kids to help out scooping out the guts, and you should have seen the looks of disgust on their faces...i thought kids were supposed to love getting dirty and messy?! Eventually bribed them with points and once they got stuck in, they really enjoyed it! (I didn't enjoy cleaning up after their impromptu pumpkin fight so much, but I guess I had it coming for encouraging the little hellions....)

[alicat_blue]

I carved a Jack-O-Lantern for my little school and all the students and teachers went ape over it. For a lot them it was like the first real JOL they had ever seen. I really enjoyed making it for them too, it definitely wasn't a perfect work of art but I was so happy to show them an integral and fun tradition of Halloween.

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

I made two jack o' lanterns two nights ago, which actually turned out pretty cool... Got the only two pumpkins left at the grocery store, so I was lucky... Kind of tricky working with these short and fat little Korean pumpkins (as opposed to the much taller and bigger ones at home), but in the end they turned out to look rather nice...

But, as luck would have it with me, my landlord doesn't like them (for what reason I don't know), and she doesn't want me to set them out in front of the house at night... A still very moist pumpkin, and a standard Korean house made of concrete and brick, it's not like anything is gonna burn down... My landlord is the scrooge of Halloween...

[Doodly]

[seoulkitchen]

[joe_doufu]

I've carved several this week, I probably spent about 30000 won on pumpkins and will have to spend at least 5000 on candles. But it's great fun, Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. We carved big pumpkins (there's a veggie street market just outside the school) on thursday but actually everybody had more fun with the small green pumpkins (might actually be a type of squash) because they were easier to clean out the insides of, easier to cut, and will probably hold their shape longer.

The best things to carve are gourds, but I've never seen them in Korea. Gourds come in various weird shapes, tall, short, round, pear-shaped, etc, and they can be dried and hardened forever. They used to be used as water bottles (the "drinking gourd"). Also I think the great big triangle eyes look crude on a big pumpkin but they look like precise details on a small squash or gourd.

[Yu_Bum_suk]