Dragons, zombies and...cooking?? OH MY?!?

The Korean school year is set up differently than in 'Merica.  The school year begins in March and they have a month break from the end of July to mid August.  Then the school year ends in mid to late December.  So they get a long break from January to March.  I personally would hate this sooooooo much, and also would weigh about 400 pounds because I would just sit around, drink booze, eat food and play video games with Jimmy and Dale during that time. 
Anyway the reason for this new update is that during this break time I have to run an English winter camp for the students that wanna come to it.  Its for a week, so 5 days, and 3 hrs a day.  I was told to make it all fun stuff for the kids to do, ok if I have to I guess. 
I must give a shout out to the websites that people have created where teachers can share the lessons they do.  They have given me around 75% of the ideas I have used for class.  Thanks for that people.
I guess the best way for me to describe the winter camp is to break it down day by day.

Day 1 - Intro, JB, and story writing
I started by introing the camp quickly for the kids then had them make name tags with things they like ranging from food to movies to sports to whatever they wanted.  I made a crappy sample one before so the kids would have an idea.  I made the mistake of writing my name with a red marker, apparently if you write someone's name with red it means they will die, hmmm i didnt know i was suicidal.  Anyway all the students freaked out and made like a huuuurrr noise, or 헐 for those of you who can read Korean.  It basically means omg.  Whateva!!!!!  The kids made there name tags and then had to present them.
For the 2nd part of class I did a quick lesson on American pop music for the kids, and because Im a 14 yr old girl and love Justin Bieber I did his "Baby" song.  I typed up the lyrics but left some words blank and had the students try to figure out what the words were.  I think they liked it...whateva I got to listen to Justin Bieber in class! 
Finally I ended the class with a sentence writing activity.  Basically every student has a piece of paper and writes a sentence or 2 and then they pass it to the next person.  Its supposed to be kinda like a story so the students could be as creative as they wanted. 
This is where you can see a big difference in the way middle school boys and girls think.  Most of the girls would add parts to the story that were semi creative but not super interesting, but more grammatically correct.  The boys however were a slightly different story.  I was murdered or killed in just about every story, and for some reason I have a feeling that was the boys input to the story.  I hope its not because i wrote my name in red earlier...

Day 2 - Dragons
The second day was pretty easy as well, we watched How To Train Your Dragon and the kids seemed to enjoy it.  Then after I had the kids, either in groups or by themselves, design their own dragon and make a poster for them as well.  Some of the kids were very artistic and creative with their dragons.  My favorite was probably the one that looked like a box of McDonalds fries with a pop for a tail.  Its name was his best friend, who just so happens to be a little chubby.  Also its special powers were "giving and getting adult diseases after sleep."  Now im not totally sure what that means but I have a feeling this dragon specialized in STDs.  Again girls are more behaved, but boys are more creative and fun.

Day 3 - Zombies (seriously i talked about zombies)
I began day 3 by showing a short clip about zombies, boys loved it, girls freaked out.  Then i explained zombies to the kids and what you would need if zombies did actually attack, its kinda like things you would need for surviving on a deserted island. 
Then the kids had to from groups and write out what they would need and what would happen to everyone on their group. 

Day 4 - Games
Its basically what it sounds like.  I had the students play different games during the day, I spy, boogle, monopoly, pictionary, charades, musical chairs, and twister.  Finally at the end of the day I showed them how to do the cha cha slide.  My co teacher, Lucy, was more into it than any of the students were. 

Day 5 - Cooking
I showed the kids the steps on how to make spaghetti and then they had to write down the steps for whatever food they planned on making with their groups.  I had them meet up a few times earlier in the week to discuss what they wanted to make and to decide who would bring in what ingredients for the food.  2 groups made sandwiches, 1 made spaghetti and the last group made duk bok ki, a Korean dish. 
Amazingly the kids were actually pretty good cooks, I know this because they gave me 'samples' of their food.  Basically I had 4 meals after I had already eaten lunch that day.  As the Koreans would say 대박, too much!!