Sport day, carving pumpkins and swine flu

Wednesday at LCI was Sport day. The day began an a sad note. Two of my Kinder students are going to be taking a month long 'break' because of swine flu. Daniel, my trouble maker, and Jenny, my smallest, cutest student, will be gone for weeks! Now my class is down to 8.

In the afternoon we carved pumpkins. Most of the students have never carved a pumpkin or even seen a real one. I took off the top and carved the face while my kids took out the insides. All of my kids were excited to do this, except for Samuel. He was not interested in touching the pumpkin at all! They had a lot of fun doing this.

After school we were told that all of our Halloween festivities have been canceled except for the haunted house. Many of the parents are concerned about all of the students being in the same room because of swine flu. (As if it can't spread from room to room in the air.) Also, many schools in our area, and around Korea, are closing. If we have to close for 2 or 3 days we were told that we would have to work on 2 or 3 Saturdays.

As of now, Wednesday night, the Korean government is strongly being urged by doctors to close schools for 'at least 2 or 3 weeks.' There are headlines all of the newspaper websites and on the news. We will see what will happen tomorrow!

Sarah and Samuel

Sean

Our jack-o-lantern