March in Daejeon...

Jack was thrilled to be the Pride, Purpose and Passion award winner for his class this month.
I managed to capture his face as his name was read out...

Look how chuffed he is... and one of his friends is giving him a high five on the way past.

The next week we were invited to listen to Jack read some of his poetry from his portfolio of work.

Last weekend, the weather was nice, so we jumped into the car and headed out of town to the National Park. While spring is sort of in the air, there are no blossoms yet. It was nice to get a little warmth and to find a new place which we will definitely visit again later in the Spring.

ok, it doesn't look scary from this angle I agree.

Molly has turned into a giant!

Nice pic Dad!

A loo with a view!

The spiky stones to massage your feet.

We found a little friend

This spot would be lovely in summer!

Harry Potter Birthday party

The arrival of the guests means all aboard the Hogwarts express at Platform 9 and 3/4...

Ethan successfully walked through the brick wall...

Here's Hayley, ready to go through the wall...

Kai busting through...

All ready for the Train!

Now we are at Hogwarts we have to be sorted into our houses by Professor MacGonagall and the sorting hat... 

Gryffindor house of course...

Don't they look great in their robes and ties.

  


Time for wands...on to Ollivanders wand shop to choose a wand.

It's a serious business choosing a wand- birch, maple, mahogany????

...and we learned "Lumos" and "Wingardium Leviosa" from Professor Dumbledore.

Our next class was Potions with professor Snape.

"class, today we are making Polyjuice potion... take your seats"

ladelling Polyjuice potion

2 Harry's.

Hermoine stirring in her  ground unicorn horn

look at it fizz

stir, stir, stir...

a cheers and then...

drink it all.

look who they turned in to... their teacher and the President of the USA.

Hermoine must have stirred a cat hair into her potion

Spiderman, Buggs Bunny and Hello Kitty all from the Polyjuice potion.

The next class was flying and Quidditch. First we had to find the Golden snitch in a treasure hunt...

this way...

no, this way...

what does the clue say?

to the gym...

Now we need to learn to fly with Madame Hooch...

We are trying to command our brooms. You must firmly say "up"

Success- Harry with the quaffle...

After quidditch we went back to the Gryffindor common room for cake and then a visit to Honeydukes sweet shop.

great cake Dad!

yum, cake plus icecream!

It was such a nice day we travelled in our flying car for a play outside... we were quite the hit in our Potter costumes with the Korean kids! Then we finished by watching the first Harry Potter movie together on the big screen.
The Gryffindor students left tired, but happy with a list of spells, some Gringotts money, Honeydukes sweets and a Care of Magical Creatures Textbook.

APAC Theatre @ TCIS

Our school is hosting an international theatre competition for the next 3 days. International schools have come from all over the Asia region to participate in workshops, culture and competition. It's a big deal for our school to be involved in this, much less hosting it.

This morning the gym was used for a traditional Korean dance with instruments, costumes etc..
As I am sitting here, listening to the drums, flute, symbols... I get a surreal sense of where I am.
I took some footage out of our office window and through our door. You can imagine the noise coming into our office this morning. The Koreans beat a drum long and hard!
I love that we get to experience this kind of stuff here.