What are we celebrating again?

This weekend has been full of celelbration! Since many of the children and staff at our school come from households in which one parent is Korean and the other American, we celebrate both American and Korean holidays.

This weekend is Chusok, which is the equivilant of Thanksgiving here. The people all get dressed up in beautiful traditional outfits and return to their childhood homes to remember their ancestors. This of course also meant lots of classroom parties and home-made food on Thursday. Chusok happened to fall during Hispanic heritage month. For the last couple weeks I have also been enjoying some awesome food from Cuba, Mexico, you name it, and the women put on a wonderful display of traditional clothes and dancing. I went to a fiesta night on Friday where they played latin music all evening and I of course danced my tush off. Oh and while we have Korean and Hispanic celebrations, we may as well have some American ones too. So we had a Columbus day weekend barbecue yesterday to make sure we were celebrating everything equally.

Needless to say, I've been having a fabulous time. :)