Chuseok

On Monday, the kindergarten kids all wore their hanboks to school. I nearly died from loving their cuteness so much. I'll try to get some of the pictures from that to post here, but trust me on this one. A Korean kid in a hanbok could rob any bank in North America and get away with it. We played some traditional games with the kids and made seongpyeon, which is a ricey thing with sweet beans in the centre which is cooked by steaming it over pine needle water. The kids loved it. Tuesday was a National Holiday of undetermined purpose, and Wednesday was a half day of school, so we played games with the junior kids all afternoon.

Today I went to the National Centre for the Arts for a Chuseok presentation. Think LiveRush without those rip-off nine dollar tickets.

Some photographic highlights:







The dances/performances were amazing. The women were wearing these beautiful traditional dresses (called hanbok), and they all had matching hair (hee hee). It looked so great to see them all together at the same time doing the movements. There was another performance with men only (the photos with the streamer-things). It was great too... there were funny parts and ooooh parts.

There was another performance with two kids in it... the kids rode on people's shoulders, and even got flung into the air from one adult to the next. It was so great, and I LOVED the way that one of the performers/actors was fake-yelling at the kid (silently) for not bowing. The kid was grinning his/her face off. In the last picture, there is a man as the base, another man on his shoulders, and then the kid on top of all that... then the people with the yellow sleeves making the star shape from the central men are two women. Hello strong bottom man!








I hope that these are in the right order!


Kath