California Beach Water Park!! (school field trip) :D

Tuesday, July 23^rd, 2013

 I had my first field trip with my students on Tuesday!  We went to California beach Water Park in Gyeongju.  Myself, some of the other Korean teachers, my director and her husband took a couple of coach buses to the water park about an hour outside of the city! 

First of all, I would like to mention the cleanliness of the water park.  Everyone was required to wear a hat and a lifejacket.  One the reasons I am hesitant about water parks at home is because of all the gross hair in the change rooms and on the ground while you are waiting in huge line-ups.  I don’t think I saw a single stray hair at this water park!  We each received our own individual locker and key for the entire day!

One of my youngest students named Bo!

I had an awesome time!  It was a chance to be outside of the classroom for a day, bond with my students and my co-workers!  Two of my co-workers and I went around the water park and rode some rides together all morning.  One ride involved standing-up, the controller closing the door and on the count of three, the controller literally pressing a button and the ground beneath you opening up so you dropped down the slide standing up.  I had a liter of water enter my body from my mouth and nose and I was down the slide in half a second but it was totally worth it.  Of course we said, “let’s do it again!” 

My co-worker Amy!  I went down the slide with another co-worker Yoni!

The water park had a splash town, where I was taken by the hand by some of my students and directed to which slide we were going down.  They kept saying, “good job, good job teacher.”  I was also barely floating when I went to the wave pool with some of the girls and I had three 9 year olds attached to every ligament they could grab.  I spent some time with some of the younger boys, watching them dangerously jump from the hot tub into the wave pool, and then distracting them but asking them to show off their swimming skills.  Finally, the three girls and I waited in the longest line of the day (probably only a thirty minute wait), to go down a ride with a four-person tube and had a blast!

A photo with some of the girls!

A peak of the park

Lunch was served in a large room, cafeteria style.  The water park had a stage with some performances, the main attraction being a K-pop group of girls.  We lost no kids, experienced no injuries, crying or catastrophes.  We left on time and returned back to Busan around 6:30pm.