Well...we just got home from our school retreat and we finally found out what cockfighting is. It has nothing to do with dildos or chickens. It is when you hold up one leg with two hands and try to knock over the other person. 20 people fighting at the same time resulted in sheer madness. It was a pretty hilarious site to see! Our trip was a lot of fun. We had games the first day at a huge sports stadium in Pusan. We not only did cockfighting, but we did a relay race, kickball, and catch the tail! Our branch won the most games and our reward was 1 million won (about $1100)! We were very excited!

That night we traveled to Gyeongju about an hour away and stayed in a traditional Korean Hotel. It was very bizarre. There were no beds, just a hard floor and comfortors in the closet that you sleep on (see pic.) We all got cleaned up and ate dinner and people from different branches gave speeches about discipline and the school curriculum. It was interesting!

After the speeches, each branch was given soju (korean liquor) and beer and lots of snacks (dried squids, raw fish, fruit, pringles, nuts, shrimp chips, ect.) So we gathered in someone's hotel room on the ground and drank and played concentration keep the beat and learned some Korean drinking games! It was a lot of fun and we got to know the korean teachers at our school a lot better. Plus we got to know other foreign teachers at other branches of our school, which was so cool!

Today we had an American breakfast in the hotel, because Kimchi and fish soup when you are a little bit hung over is pretty discusting! We went to a beautiful temple, where there were many Korean children saying hi...hi...hi... to us because they wanted to practice their English. One little girl gave me a little buddah figure! We felt like movie stars when they crowded around us and started asking us for our autographs! It was hilarious!
-Jennifer