안녕하세요! Another beautiful day in Daejeon, South Korea! Today, we started our first day of classes. We all grabbed our laptops and backpacks and headed off to the W13 building which is the biggest building on campus. We went on the fourth floor to a beautiful lecture hall where Dr. Duh was presenting her slideshow on developmental assessment. In this presentation, she taught us the areas of development such as physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and personality as well as many tools we can use as data collectors and researchers. We focused on the social-emotional area since that is what we are working on with the SEL program. We also did a fun activity that is used for children to test their connection with their social-emotional side. First, Dr. Duh explained that we were supposed to touch our heads and toes but when she yelled at one of the body parts, we have to do the opposite. For example, if she is to yell “HEADS!”, we are supposed to touch our toes and vice versa. This was fairly easy for us so we passed this portion. The second part of the activity involved our shoulders and knees. When Dr. Duh would yell “SHOULDERS” we would have to touch our knees and she added the first part of the activity as well. This part was a little tricky for me because I have a problem with memorizing but I think I did a pretty good job. For the third part of the activity, we put both the first and second parts together and switched them up. So when Dr. Duh yelled “KNEES!”, instead of touching our shoulders as we did for the second portion, we had to touch our heads. This was a bit confusing because originally when Dr. Duh yelled out knees, we would have to touch our shoulders. I think we all had some difficulty with the third part of the activity but overall, I think we all had fun. Thank you Dr. Duh for the amazing presentation and activity!
After the presentation, we went to the study hall to meet with our Korean students to practice for our kindergarten school visit. Yujin, Minji, Soobin, and Seohyun were there and I was very happy to see them and work with them! Our activity is the calming jar and learning calming techniques. We will be reading a book called A Peaceful Spot to the children so they can learn that feeling big emotions is okay and there are ways to deal with them. We will then give the children mystery mail that they can take home showing all the types of calming techniques such as reading, yoga, being out in nature, and dance. The next item on the list is the calming jar where the children will make their very own calming jar with its own unique colors, glitters, and sparkles so it feels special to them. When they shake it up, all glitter and sparkles will disperse in the bottle and the kids can watch it all go down while doing breathing exercises. The children can take their bottles home and whenever they are feeling really big emotions such as sadness, anger, or grief, they can use their calming jars and breathing techniques to calm themselves down. Yujin, Minji, Soobin, and Seohyun really enjoyed learning about the activity and were very excited, as we all are. They added their own points to help make the activity go much smoother for us. I am very excited to teach the children at Gayang K. with the Korean students. After a long day of studying and attending classes, many of the students wanted to try authentic Korean food. Laurie, Aivi, Gwen, Hailie, Maddie, and I decided to go have dinner off-campus and we ate at a small restaurant on the corner where they served the pork with a bunch of little sides such as corn and perilla leaves. Although we asked for two small portions, the portion was big for all of us so we got full pretty fast. It was really tasty and I usually don’t eat pork but I would eat what we had again! My goal while being in Korea is to have as much authentic Korean food as I can. I already have a great appreciation for the music so why not start on my food journey and start with Korea?! I know all of us had fun at dinner and I am very happy we all went together. Now, it’s time to go to bed and get a goodnight’s sleep! Signing off!! -Bri
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