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wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Most of the kids looked cute dressed up as: a princess, Batman, Spiderman, Power Rangers, and many other super heroes. One kindie's mother MADE a costume just like Cinderella, and had the girl's hair cut to look exactly like Cinderella. Very nice.

We didn't have any really lame ones like kids pretending to be soccer players by wearing 5,000 wan Korean soccer t-shirts (from dogdumb stadium vendors). That's what I expected.

Our owner didn't want to pay for pumpkins for the kindies, so he asked me if we could just draw faces on unpeeled bananas and tell the kids they are jack-o-lanterns. Um, NO.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

One more thing- one of the secretaries used a large black marker to write "Holloween" on all of the kindie's foreheads. She also did it to four of the teachers. She wanted to do it to me, but said "No" because I had visions of having to use steel wool to get it off. Laughing

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

This isn't a 'good story' but it's something different. Our hagwon had a street parade. It went in three shifts of groups of kids. Big cardboard box of costumes (usually sewn out of coloured felt) and masks, tinsel party hats, etc. (like a box of Xmas decorations except Halloween stuff, hauled out every year and gaining weight of goods over the years). They got something on and went, teachers as accompaniment, up and down the main street.

It was kind of a gas. I've never participated in a Hagwon Halloween street parade and it was fun. The Korean English teachers did not wear any kind of costume. Just a chest banner that said the name of the Hagwon.

I wore a bizarre costume I'd spent some weeks working on. Our hagwon is a bit on the edge of town and so it's got the conservative, rural element in the surrounding population and this was visible in the reaction to the parade.

Some older Koreans just walked on by as if it was too much, and in bad taste, or not Korean, or whatever they thought. Some people seemed to think it was the hagwon they didn't have money to send their kids to being a spoilt showboat. Some teenage students, who figured it was me under the costume, seemed to think it wasn't proper for an adult to be dressed in costume.

But on the whole the people were pleasantly surprised by all the colour and the costumed children looking pleased with themselves looking outrageous. It was like a Mardi Gras parade, and so in stark contrast with Korean conservative dolor. Korea needs Hagwon Halloween street parades!

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

formerflautist · Joined: 30 May 2006

I wore my cool Halloween earrings. One is a ghost and the other says "Boo." No one noticed. Crying or Very sad

atlhockey · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Jeonju City

We made a kid throw up.

Y'know the blood and guts thingy where you put cold spaghetti, jello, peeled grapes, etc. in bowls and then blindfold kids and put their hands in them and tell them it's intestines, brains, eyes? Yeah, and this wasn't a little kid either, sixth grade boy.

We were pretty proud of ourselves.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

Halloween Pugs!!
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Meggiebea · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Location: Uijeongbu, South Korea

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Somehow the owner thought this was a big holiday for us, (on the level with Christmas), and he bought TONS of candy. He kept giving ME more candy, and I kept giving it away. Maybe 8 huge bags of the stuff ended up in kids' hands (and stomachs) this way.