Chuseok

Chuseok is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea. It is celebrated the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is Korea's version of Thanksgiving where they go to their ancestral hometowns and share a feast of traditional Korean food together with their families. This year, Chuseok took place September 18-20. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong with a friend, but before our break my school held a fun day for the kids.

The kindergarten kids got all dressed up in their hanbok (traditional outfits)...gotta take them pictures!

Jacob, the little prince.

The kids waiting for their turn to take pictures to send back home to their parents.

The six year olds playing tag.

Here the kids are making ttakji (paper pogs). The point of this game is to throw your ttakji at the other person's ttakji and get it to flip over. If it flips over, you win their ttakji. The one with the most ttakji at the end wins. I remember playing this game when I was kid in Ecuador. We called the pogs, "tazos".

In the afternoon, we also had a little party with the elementary students. They brought snacks and hung out and then we played games with them.

This game is called "Chicken Fight". You play this game by holding onto one of your feet so that you are standing on one leg and then try to knock the other person over. The first person to put their foot down loses.