Chrissy Renae

(May 4, 2010)

The elementary schools in Korea have a lovely holiday called “Children’s Day” where they celebrate children and there is no school. In honor of this holiday, most schools have “Sports Day” during the same week, where the kids get to run around outside all day and play games with their class. It operates a little different at each school, but here at Nammyun Elementary there were about 10 various “sports” and games set up for the kids to play, all of which I have never seen before. The kids all showed up in white sweat suits and colored visors (gift from the school) ready for a day of play. Not sure where the everyone-wear-white-on-a-dirt-field idea came from, but everybody’s totally on board. It was fun to wander around and watch the kids play and just have some care free fun.