Elections and A Night At Mad Max!

All week the students have been involved in the student elections for class president, etc. They have been campaigning like mad and most of the candidates mimicked the new #1 Korean drama, 꽃보다 남자, which in English means, 'Boys Over Flowers' in their campaigns. Some of the students even went so far as to make business style cards that had their names, picture and campaign slogan on them.

These are the grade 5 candidates and their campaign posters. I believe they are running for vice-president.These are the grade 6's and their campaign posters. They are running for student body president.

The actual voting took place on Friday and it was really intense. The students watched the candidates speeches on TV in their classrooms and then they watched a video on how to vote. They used electronic voting booths and it was so advanced for elementary school elections. I mean the voting system for the school elections was more cutting edge than voting in the Canadian elections.

Here is a look at the voting system used for the student election. Individual booths where they vote electronically on a card and then they put that card in the ballot box...it was crazy!

Friday when I was at school being a teacher Lauren stayed home and slept in because she had been traveling all day Thursday and was exhausted. After school I met her at my apartment and we made a nice little dinner together.

This was the delicious dinner we created together and enjoyed in true Korean fashion sitting on the floor.

After dinner we met Nicole, Lindsay and Lisa at Mad Max for some drinks. Lauren got along great with them and she really took a liking to Lisa, which was great because I love Lisa and she is probably the nicest Korean girl I know and hang out with. Of course, one of the first places I take Lauren was going to be Mad Max. The workers and owner know us and treat us so good and I wanted Lauren to experience it and meet them. Unfortunately, she didn't get any free from them yet like we have in the past, but I hope to take her there again before she leaves and hopefully that will lead to some free stuff.