Good god!  I’ve been busy lately.  Last July I took over the coordinator position at the school and since then my plate has been pretty full doing…well…let’s just say lots of “administrative” stuff.  A bonus to all of the extra work is that I get to travel to Hanoi in February as a representative of our school to our sister school in Vietnam.  Hopefully, if all goes well there, down the road I’ll have the chance to visit India, China, and Japan as well.

But that’s not what this post is about.

A couple of weeks ago our school held its winter festival.  I’ve got to tell you, the kids at our school are amazing.  I already knew that the majority of them were smart, but I had no idea how talented many of them are as well.

Students study at the school until 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.  As if that were not enough, they come to school every other Saturday to take part in their club activities.  Each student joins a club at the beginning of the year.  There are a variety of clubs, including a club that produces an English-language magazine, a movie making club, a modern dance club, a soccer club, a musical club, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (but sadly this year, no English) theater clubs, a fashion design club, and many, many more.

Many of the clubs use their Saturday meetings to prepare for the winter festival.  In addition to the club performances, a few individuals of extraordinary ability also perform.  The kid who I wrote about here sang and, I must say, he was pretty good.  But, for my money, the kid who stole the show was the first-year student in the video below.  Unfortunately, being the idiot that I so often am, I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough battery life for the whole show so I didn’t record his performance to the end.

Reminds me of when I was 16.  Except that I was a maestro of the baseball diamond.  That’s right, baby, yeah!

While I’m at it, I’ll include a little of the Korean-language theater performance.  The girl who played the lead character (황진이) was particularly impressive.

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