One of the funnest things of the festival was the outside fair. My biggest complaint is they wanted to sell us food to eat right after finishing lunch....
But anyways there were muffins, cheese balls, candy canes, and what is that? Tortilla chips?
French toast, chocolate cookies, yogurt, and cherry Coke (Coke mixed with Kool Aid and actually pretty good for a few sips). Not to mention the cookies with names and words written on them. I must admit it was a great marketing idea to put "I love Han Teacher" on a cookie or "MiYoung and GyeongShin" on a heart shaped cookie.
The tortilla chips and the Churros can be purchased from Costco. The toaster oven cooking method + frying pan proved to be an interesting combo.
There was also boiled fish as well as chicken on a stick with optional cheese (really good). Turn the corner and you see various small candies, dumplings (pan fried or steamed) and bread with honey inside. The 'dalkona' was really good as well. You take sugar and melt it over an open flame, mix in coffee or green tea if you like, and then pour it out and make it into shapes if you wish.
Walk around a little more and you can get your face painted or you could toss water balloons. Or how about the classic hammering nails into wood?
Surprisingly there was a boxing ring. Several of the teachers got into the ring and as you can see really got into it.
And do you remember that arcade game where you got the rubber mallet and had to hit the things that popped up? Hehehehehe And don't worry, the kids were fine.
On the last night of the festival there was the Dress Party. Now there is nothing like the Prom in Korean culture, so this was huge for the students. They kept telling me this has to be one of the first dress parties at a high school in Korea, ever.
Not really feeling it, I decided to pass until I found out that all of the teachers were dressing in student uniforms. Oh alright, I'm in. This was the first time I have ever worn a student uniform and I found it comfortable. And as you can see not all of the students dressed up really formal. In this end this was the highlight of the festival. I had a lot of fun that night.
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hey man :-) however, there are several unis in Korea that have two festivals in a year. I've read you were also in my adorable Yonsei :-) We have one in Spring, one in Autumn.
I googled for 'firefree' campaign of 'Safeco' and the second image for 'firefree' was you holding a 삼각김밥 -_- and I read your blog :-)
anyway I still can't figure out what's the connection between 삼각김밥 & safeco's firefree hahahah anyway where are you from?
That is a good question how those items are related; I really have no idea.
I was an exchange student at Yonsei a few years back; I do have a lot of Yonsei pride and was thankfully able to attend the 연고전 games this year (1st time I was able to make it).
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