Secret Santa!
Korean life, Teaching November 27th. 2009, 11:01pmI got asked to join the office Secret Santa pool. I had luckily grabbed someone I actually know from the office, so I can stealthily build a knowledge base of things I know they like to pool ideas from for gifts through the week. While my students worked on their group projects I started planning out the different ideas for gifts related to this particular person.
I’ve got 20,000 won to spend to make the next week more entertaining. I guess I am the first person to get into the idea of this game as a week long game. When I told some people in the office that I was working on a theme for the week of gifts they got very excited by the idea. “Oh, you plan it out in advance? You know what you’ll be doing each day? You have a theme inspired by the person? I hope you have me, that sounds awesome!”
Heh heh heh.
I have no idea who has my name, and I don’t know if I’m any good at keeping a secret at all*. Two people probably already know who I am gifting simply because I’m new at this game. This is actually the first time I’ve ever been involved in an office game. Most of the time I worked with one other person, and Korean offices were never inter-personal in that way. It was all professional all the time. I was kind of disappointed about getting caught by another player before the game even really began. I’ll have to be more sneaky. I already arrive much earlier than anyone else in the office most days, so setting up stuff shouldn’t be too difficult. Next time I just need to lock a door to buy some time. Whoops!
Tomorrow I can get started thinking about a gift I know they might like. I plan to actually hide them until I can thematically reveal them day by day without getting caught. I’ve got to secretly keep getting information about the person, while keeping under budget. Stealth! Creativity! Gift-Giving! Secrets! What is not to love?
*Shame on any of the potential coworkers that read this blog post to try to figure out who I have. Cheaters.
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