So I sustained my first injury in Taekwondo here in Korea... playing indoor soccer. I kicked the ball the other guy kicked the ball my toe met his foot, my left pinky toe went splat. Not bad mind you, I didn't notice for a couple of minutes, but I was bleeding so I got one of the black-belt's attention, and we stopped the game and slapped a band-aid on the the thing. The reason we were playing indoor soccer was because we had gone out to dinner at the Chinese restaurant to celebrate someones graduation from something, and after that there is certainly no way to go on business as usual so we went back to the institute, and... played in door soccer with a very soft bouncy ball, and water bottles as goals. A goal was knocking over the bottle with the ball. It was fun. I think we lost.
Also today, I called home for the first time since I got here. I talked to mom which was great and I left a message on my dads phone.
In class today I taught the six and seven year olds the "Apple and Bannana" song. If you dont know it goes:
I like to eat eat eat
apples and bannanas
I like to eat eat eat
apples and bannanas
I like to oat oat oat
opples and bonnonos
I like to oat oat oat
opples and bonnonos
I like to iyte iyte iyte
iypples and bynnynys
I like to iyte iyte iyte
iypples and bynnynys
and so on, substituting a different vowel sound every verse.
they loved it... for fifteen minutes... I need more songs like that.
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heyyyyyyy!!
I did that song with my kiddos too!! Last semester... and last year!!
Did your children like it as much as mine did???
WE SHALL NEVER KNOW FOR SURE!!
We used shakers too.. (homemade) paper mache'd apples and bananas with beads inside for them to shake to the rhythm.. interesting times!
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sorry about your toe!
Song:
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, I guess she'll die (sub in get a stomach ache, something age appropriate).
There was an old woman who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and wiggled and wiggled insider her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly. I guess she'll die. There was an old woman who swallowed a bird. How ubsurd! She swallowed a bird! She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallwed the fly, I guess she'll die. There was an old woman who swallowed a cat. Imagine that! She swallowed a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the...
Get it? Each animal gets bigger and can catch the next smaller one. I've sang it all the way up to a dinosaur or dragon. My mom insists on the song being age appropriate and never say "guess she'll die".
Have fun!
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