Safety Theme Park Field Trip

This month's field trip was the Daegu Safety Theme Park. It was pretty awesome. The kids were able to watch videos (in Korean) that I think were explaining what causes disasters and how to react - like fires, earthquakes, floods, hiking accidents, and so on. What was really interesting is that the exhibits were very hands on. I took some videos to show you guys :]

This is an earthquake simulator - the kids had to turn off the electricity and gas line and then hide under the table. They were so excited! Later we walked through a "alleyway" with falling "brick walls" and debris on the ground.

The fire extinguisher simulator - the kids got to take turns putting out fake fires.

The Safety Theme Park was up the Palgong Mountain, so it was quite a drive, but the kids amused themselves, and by the drive home most were exhausted and asleep. This is Kyoung Mo and Olivia, he clearly has a crush on her, and its pretty adorable.

Kyoung Mo fixing his socks with great concentration.

Chloe, Chaeyeon, and Lucy

Olivia and Minseo sharing chips. All of the kids bring snacks big enough to share. They are so sweet about it, I can't even turn down really weird snacks I would have never picked out on my own, and just drink a lot of water to avoid the taste.

Edwin is a pretty serious kid most of the time, but occasionally he does a Hawaiian dance that is hilarious.

Edwin eating candies.

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Seseong Lake

I am ridiculously behind in uploading pictures of the adventures I have gone on. This is Suseong Lake (a stock image of it from the internet), which I went to after my first week of work (August 8th, to be exact). Corinne took me out with her friends the night before, then we wandered around this beautiful park right in Daegu.

Of course we had to ride the swan boats. Jesse and Corinne were the best friends ever, because they sat in the front and therefore had to pedal.

Jessie and I are free riding in the back. All of us are pro's at boating safety. Jessie actually took all of these pictures, as I did not bring my camera. They turned out great, and she was nice enough to let me put them on here so you could all see them :].

Look at this hallowed out swan boat. A little creepy, but I like it.

On the lake there is also a little mini amusement park. Its full of 100 won rides, which are shaky old machines that are almost scary they are so rickety.. but there is also a newer section...

This is a rickshaw-style ride - they are animatronic teddy bears that walk in a set loop around the park. Creepy really, but there were tons of kids riding around in them.

Also, there were more traditional "amusement park" rides, which were more expensive but fun.

I am very behind in updating, so in the next day or two I should be posting pictures from a day trip to Gyeong Ju, the International Body Painting Festival, and downtown Daegu.