Karate Fun Friday

We planned a party for the kids at Benny's karate school... and it took place last night. Another mom, Lee, helped organize and arrange it, and Ahno also prepped some of the stuff and came to help with the actual party. It was last night. We lived. Lived to fight another day. It actually went GREAT. I was very thankful Ahno was there -- she made everything go very smoothly, and the kids just instantly listened to her whenever she opened her mouth. Lee was fantastic with her end of it -- her activities were wonderful. All the children had fun, no one cried, no one got hurt. The biggest surprise for me was that the sushi demonstration was enormously engaging for the children, and most of them actually tried the sushi, and some even tried their hand at making it. Amazing.



Here are some of the kids in their team headbands. Aren't they cute?!



Lee teaches at the university here, and she invited some of her Korean students to come and help. They were fantastic -- with the sushi demo and also this activity where they showed the kids how to do their names in Korean.



Here they are playing the card game. It went very well -- they understood it and played it enthusiastically. The cards around their necks are the Korean phrase cards I made them.



The end of the night was a puzzle tournament... we only got halfway through before the parents started to arrive and pick the kids up. So we didn't make it through the whole program.

A success.