Movie Day

You know that I miss planning events when I throw myself into planning a Movie Day at my school. On the flip side, I think a great deal of my inspiration and motivation came from the utter chaos and extreme confusion that surrounded the past couple of events that Dong-A threw. What I really dreamed about was an event that throughout it and at the end of it, didn't leave me needing alcohol, and didn't leave the kids scarred for life.

Okay, slightly overdramatic, but what is life without a little drama.

I don't think that either Wayne or I realized the amount of work that would go into a simple day ...but it did end up being a ton of fun.

Every single day the kids strive for one thing and one thing only, and it's not an amazing, well rounded education - it's stickers. You can pretty much coax them into doing anything for a simple, tiny little blue dot. Who needs handcuffs and shot guns when you have stickers. They will put their hands up and answer in class, they will sit down when told, they will even do their homework. So at the end of the month, when we put on these events, we turn their stickers into money ...and this currency is what is used to enjoy the event.

For movie day we broke the seating down into 4 sections: VIP, Gold, Silver & Bronze. VIP was the ultimate in luxury - up close and personal with the screen, padded and comfortable chairs and complete with your own personal servants - Wayne & I. Bronze could barely see the screen.

We set up the seating area, popped 64 bags of microwave popcorn, made posters, put up balloon displays, sold tickets, invited guests, and taped together lollipops. Oh how I love the movies.

That being said - top of my list to actually see one day, the movie
'Up.'