Work Sports Day

So my School Avalon, our sister school Avalon Kumho Campus and Shane's School Reading Town had their staff Sports Day. These three schools are run by the same management, a husband and wife. On a mandatory Saturday, we were picked up by buses at 8am, probably in and around 100 staff. We made sure to get kitted out in sweatbands, sweet hats and wigs. On the bus they fed us DODGY breakfast, "toast" as they call it (toasted sandwich with egg, cheese, shredded cabbage & spicy sauce) and then brought us to hike a VERY steep mountain. Apparently in Korea, this sort of physical activity is known as staff bonding time. Each campus had their own color T-shirts which we had to wear. I'd say 30% of the staff bailed after a five minute attempt at the hike, at the top they counted how many of each color shirt had made it. After millions of photo ops where all the Koreans made their usual peace sign with their fingers, we headed back for the buses to see what torture was next.

After some stopping and starting of the buses, a few u-turns and a lot of indecision as to where we should go, they opted for a large school hall because the weather turned for the worst. We ate a Japanese lunch on the floor and then began our sports day.

Sports day consisted of a balloon popping game, balloon popping race, dodge ball, jump rope and taboo. It was a strange and hilarious day, full of new cultural experiences and we even got to learn a new set of rules for dodge ball. Yay! ha ha!