This past Friday we went on a field trip to a sweet potato farm. We left LCI around 9:50am and loaded into 3 coach buses. After a thirty minute ride we arrived at the farm. We walked around the farm looking at puppies and goats. We continued on to a beautiful field full of sweet potatoes that was surrounded by mountains. The kids joined a line of others and began digging for their treasures. It was so funny to see lines of little kids throwing dirt around as they tried to dig up these potatoes. The manual labor was a great way to burn off access energy! From there we went to feed cows the sweet potato greens. The kids were able to hold long leaves out as the cows munched away. We were then loaded onto an ox pulled wagon. After a two minute ride in a circle around a smaller garden, we headed to eat lunch. The kids had all brought lunches of kimbap (traditional Korean food, rice, veggies and egg wrapped in seaweed) and other goodies. Once we were all filled up we went to feed carrots to horses. We then boarded the buses for the ride back to school. Field trips are always fun and exciting but they always feel like 8 hours. Arriving back at LCI is always exhausting as we still have over 4 hours of teaching ahead of us. Our head supervisor could see our exhaustion and surprised us by delivering pizzas around 4pm. This seemed to give us the energy to finish out the day.
After work a few of us went out for galbi, Korean beef and mushrooms which are cooked on a grill in the center of your table. It turned out to be a very exciting day as we were able to enjoy the beautiful fall weather outside with our students.
Jacob and his sweet potatoes
Digging for potatoes
Wagon ride
Audrey and Judy
Galbi for dinner
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