As Zach pointed out, Market Day was the ultimate "One Story, Two Perspectives..." Event. You see, I was an art major and am from the Northern United States. Zach is a boy (an athletic one, but I think it was more important that he is a boy in this situation) and from the Southern United States. And so, our fates were sealed. I spent Market Day painting faces in the North wing of Oedae while Zach played Basketball in the South. At first I was like, WHAT??? an entire day without my best friend, that's crazy (because BFFs like to hang out)!!! But, then we had so much to share over popcicles during a break. Market Day=Success
So let me tell you about Market Day, as only I can tell it. You are probably wondering what kinds of things Korean Elementary School students want painted on their faces. Well, most of them wanted exactly what their friends wanted. And probably more than half wanted whatever it was painted on their hands, not their faces. But here is a brief (and by brief, I apparently mean expansive so sorry about that) list: about a billion butterflies, a million rainbows, lots of cats, tons of bunnies (some successful, some very bad, and some that looked like they had duck bodies because it took me a while to place the tail), flowers, lollipops (thanks to the new Big Bang and whoever song "Lollipop"), "Big Bang," a couple of truly bad dragons, some snakes, that symbol that starts a line of music, a bunch of Korean flags, a disappointing dragonfly, a lion, a really great monkey and on the other side of the same kid's face a very mediocre monkey, a dinosaur, a yellow pig, a pink pig, a bat, 2 ghosts, fire, hearts, hearts with wings, a terrible lizard, 2 lady bugs (but they were both on Elizabeth Teacher), and then FINALLY, at the end of the day, some kids let me draw cat noses and whiskers on them.
Best Friends at Market Day- One Story, Two Perspectives...
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