Today, I woke up early in order to do some summer homework for my other classes. Once I finished, I got ready for today’s activities. In this year’s cohort, there are four Filipino American students. We were all missing Filipino food and planned to visit a Filipino restaurant during our stay in Daejeon. Through this student teaching program, we met Dr. Roquillo, a Filipino Professor that has been teaching in South Korea since 2012. She invited us to eat some Filipino food after we talked to her about missing our parent’s home cooked meals back in the U.S. Dr. Roquillo welcomed us with open arms into her small and humble office. We feasted on chicken adobo, pancit, sisig, and puto. She even showed us her collection of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, which she has in 13 different languages/versions. Time flew by with Dr. Roquillo and before we knew it, it was time to attend Graciela and Danica’s Presentations.
Graciela and Danica are graduate students that have been part of this program since the beginning of this cohort. Their lectures included information about U.S. children’s social and emotional health during the pandemic through SEL programming as well as how service learning promotes awareness and development of school-based social emotional professionals. Through Graciela’s question of asking what the Korean college students noticed about their kindergarteners’ while facing the pandemic, I found out that they noticed the Korean kindergarteners had a hard time with learning Korean due to not being able to read the teacher’s lips because of having to wear facemasks. They noticed that the kids did not want to play with one another at the beginning and were more interested in media such as youtube. This is very similar to what some of us have noticed in the U.S. as well. Afterwards, we had SEL prep for this week’s activities which include feeling flowers and friendship bracelets. The day did not end there, at least not for my partner Ai-Vi and I. We met up with our Korean partners to write Korean calligraphy on Korean paper called, “hanji/ 한지.” Our team also made hanji fans, hanji lanterns, and created a diorama using the Korean paper. It was a super fun activity to end the day with and I was able to become even closer with the Korean students through this experience! -Maxine
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