Keep Going: Ending of a four day work week

This week has been quite interesting, though the work part of it was kind of a piece of cake. I worked on Monday and Tuesday though my schedule has been reduced due to middle schoolers having mid-terms these this week.

Wednesday was our Children's Day Party at work, which was awesome -- since the previous academies I worked at never did anything such as this for the holiday. I got to be in my own classroom during the whole party and play Jenga with the kids -- mostly I was just supervising though with one of my coworkers.

Yesterday was Children's Day, which is a national holiday here in Korea. I utilized my sharp knowledge of Korean express buses, and took a bus from where I live to an area called Cheonan. Cheonan is near Seoul. I had to take another bus from there to a city called Ansan. I met the Daegu Young Falcons there -- my group that I mentored and worked with last year. Yesterday was the opening day of a very big Air Show, in that area. It's known as Northeast Asia's premier air show, and it was a big one. Having a opening day fall on a national holiday was a super idea -- it seemed like there may have been one million Koreans just at this event alone.

I am not sure that there were actually that many folks, but they had anything and everything at this festival. You could find Starbucks, an auto show, traditional Korean music and dancing, an air show, with exhibits galore (of course you would have an air show at an air show), stunt pilots, and much, much MORE!!! I got to watch a famous American girl do some pretty incredible stunts in her vintage plane, along with a group of Europeans who were dazzling to watch. The crowd was astonished at watching the various groups perform. The infamous Black Eagles of Korea did a heck of a job too -- especially on my ears! I got pretty sunburned at the event since I didn't wear any sunscreen and forgot my hat was in bag too. I'll leave ya with some pictures!!