By Suitalliah, Jiseok, Salem, Olivia G, Alexis

On Monday the 13th of August some Kāhu children went to a Korean Festival run by our Korean teacher named Jenny. It was in Homeroom 3. At the festival, they were making jegi, they also played toho, and they wore Korean clothes such as hanbok. The students also wrote their names in Korean. This was very fun and exciting for the children because some of them haven't done most of these things before.

The first thing they did was write their names in Korean. It was very interesting. The normal colours they use in their Korean lessons are red, black and blue. But in the festival you could do it in many colours, not just red, blue and black. You could use green, yellow, purple and many more. 

The students also made Jegi. They had to grab a rubbish bag. The colours were yellow and purple. Then they folded it and got a candle and then put it in the middle of the rubbish bag. Next they cut 8 lines but they had to make sure they didn’t cut it too far. When they finished they would unfold it and put the candle in the middle again. Lastly they would wrap it up and tie it up with a rubber band. The children found this very fun but the best part was when they got to kick the jegi around the place. Dylan and Charlie said they really enjoyed it.

The students also played a game called toho where you thought of the area and you would throw your (blunt) arrow to the hole. You got 1 point for the small one. The big one was worth 3 points and the girls threw their arrows in the red container and the boys threw their arrows in the green container.

They also tried on hanbok. It's a type of Korean outfit. There were many colours like red, black, yellow and so much more. Georgia and Ava-Grace found this very interesting. Everyone had fun dressing up. We are thankful for Jenny coming to Roydvale for the Korean festival. We all had such a good time at the Korean festival.

The Kāhu students have really enjoyed learning Korean this year with our teacher Jenny. All classes in our team have learnt Korean for a term. The Korean Festival was a celebration of all our hard work learning Korean. We want to say a big thank you to Jenny for teaching us all and for planning such a fun festival. 감사합니다 (gamsahamnida) Thank you!