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Once a month at school we have a birthday party for all the students whose birthdays fall in that month. May’s was the biggest party yet so I thought we would share some photos with you. For the birthday party all the students gather in our school’s gym after lunch. There is cake, snacks, juice, balloons, music and did I mention cake... lots of cake. The students who are celebrating are given a birthday hat and a seat at the honored guests table. The other students sit on the floor eyeing the cake above. We sing “Happy Birthday” in English and the traditional birthday song in Korea that goes a little something like this. “Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations.” (Over and over again). I’m sure that’s all there is to it. After singing and taking pictures with their teachers, the kids dig in and go crazy for all the sugar. I have yet to see a kid get cut off at a birthday party, the cake and cookies just keep coming.

The highlight of this birthday party for me was when the cake ran out. For several reasons, but mainly because my student Kevin decided he hadn’t had enough. He ran around looking for kids who were momentarily distracted from their cake so he could plop down snag a bite and be gone again by the time the looked back. I watched him do this to about ten different kids. It was too cute to tell him to stop and I was done teaching him for the day, so I didn’t care how much sugar he consumed.

One of the students I teach right after lunch apparently had too much cake at this birthday party. That or Language Arts just really makes him ill. Either way my afternoon was not pleasant.

The birthday party was chaos, as usual, but it made for some great photos. Check them out on our Welton School Birthday Party photo album.

We wanted to share with you some of the outfits our students wear to school. We don’t always have our camera around but we have tried to capture some of the greatest outfits we have seen.

One thing I was not able to capture enough of is the princess dresses. Some of my kindergarten girls go all out. They have huge dresses, that they wear with light-up heels, plastic jewelry, and the lastest craze to hit my class... red lipstick. This was not something they got from me, but my little five year old girls break out the mirrors and lipstick every chance they get. I will go to the bathroom and come back to four little red-faced clowns. When I ask who brought the lipstick, they look at me with pouted lips and blank stares. I can’t help but laugh.

The boys love to wear Konglish t-shirts, funny hats, and  Burberry. The boys never know what their shirts say but they will proudly take a photo when we ask.

The most infamous of fashion victims at Welton is one of my favorite students, Tights McGee. Tights McGee, also known as Philip to some, was given his name because he wears tights...everyday. Now you might be thinking, “That’s weird for a boy to wear tights under his pants or shorts.” This is where you would be mistaken, you see, he wears tights in lieu of pants or shorts. His shirts tend to be rather short as well and never match the usually striped tights. As you can see in the picture on the right, he chose brown and tan striped tights to pair (his favorite pair) with the bright blue Welton polo. To make this situation even better, Tights never likes to sit nicely in his chair with his feet towards the floor. Rather, he perches up, feet on chair, leaning on the table, behind pressed towards the sky. It’s really hard to not laugh while telling him to please sit down. He is a cute little boy but I hope this fashion is only a phase and that his mother will realize it really isn’t a good look to carry on into Elementary School.

Please check out more photos of Tights and other fashionable students in the photo gallery.