Multibang!

This week at school has been Spongebob overload. I used a template of a ppt game from waygook.org and edited in practice questions for the students' midterm next week. Although the game does keep the students interested, it's still a bit hard to hear the Spongebob theme song 13 times in one week.

Thank goodness for the weekend! This Saturday, we went out for our friend Chris's birthday. We walked through the park on the way to Bupyeong. We saw some spring blooms and stopped for a photo op. We also obeyed the signs.

photo op

blooms

No to butterfly nets. No to cooking. Yes to puppies. 

Since I talk about this place all the time, I figured I should add some photos of Bupyeong. This is what it looks like from the outside. Inside and underground it is a network of tunnels that connect shops, restaurants, movie theatres, offices, two subway lines and more. 

Entranceway at Bupyeong

Traditional performers in the centre of Bupyeong

Once we met up with Chris, Laura, and Mitchell, we went to a Nepalese restaurant to eat some delicious food (which I forgot to take pictures of because I was really hungry and excited to eat everything. sorry.)

Then we went to a multibang nearby. The multibang is sort of like norebang (singing room), but with more options. We booked a room for 2 hrs to play video games and karaoke our hearts out. The place also has a snack bar with free ice cream, popcorn, and drinks to enhance your multibang experience. Basically this place is heaven for preteens (and pretty much everyone else when taken in small doses)

settling into the multibang

snacks

We got really into Mario Kart racing for a while. Like, really really into  it. It's so easy to get sucked into racing games. There's just one focus--get to the finish line first. You can see the concentration on our faces.

zombie racers. photo taken by Laura

Then we switched to a dance game. We took it very seriously. You can tell by the ponytails, that we weren't messing around :p

dance off!

Finally, we did some karaoke. It was great to sing in English since usually we hear a lot a lot a lot of K-pop in school and around town. Our room time ran out in the middle of a very passionate chorus of Lady Gaga's "I'm still in love with Judas" and we had to leave the multibang and go back to reality.

Rockstars.