Pickleball for Beginners: An Introduction to the Game

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Introduction: Discovering Pickleball – A Sport for Everyone Imagine stepping onto a pickleball court, where the energy is palpable and the excitement infectious. Players on each side, paddles in hand, ready themselves for the serve. This is pickleball in action, a sport that seamlessly blends the pace and thrill of tennis, the finesse of badminton, … Read more

The Advanced Poker Strategies: Taking Your Game to the Next Level

If you’re looking to take your poker game to the next level, mastering advanced poker strategies can make all the difference. To move beyond playing basic hands and patterns, you need to understand how other players think and make decisions. This advanced knowledge will enable you to identify opportunities to win more often with less … Read more

Traditional Children’s Games from Around the World

Games We Played as Children: Around the world, children have one thing in common. They love to play games. Discover how children from Venezuela, Mexico, Korea, China, Germany, and many other countries play different versions of the same traditional games. Jump Rope Games Hopscotch Games Games of Tag Games of Marbles Games Played with Balls … Read more

Traditional Children’s Games: Games for Toddlers

We all played simple games when we were very young. Here are three games that international students from Germany, Switzerland, and Korea played as toddlers (very young children). Toddlers like to play with pots and pans. A pot on the head of one foot in the pot s a lot of fun! 1. Topfschlagen (Hit the Pot) Carolyn Behne … Read more

Traditional Children’s Games: Games Played with Balls

In countries around the world, children love playing games with balls. Playing these games, they learn to handle the ball in different ways and develop special skills. In the process, they have a lot of fun. A student from Colombia describes a traditional game played in her country called Oba and a student from Mexico describes a traditional game called Keep the … Read more

Traditional Children’s Games: Hopscotch

Around the world, children have enjoyed drawing grids on the sidewalk or on the ground and then jumping or hopping from one end of the grid to the other. They draw different kinds of grids. Some are like the one in the photo. Others are round and curl in a circle. Still others are a … Read more

Seol-Nal (Lunar New Year)

Seol-nal is the second biggest holiday in Korea. It is always looked forward to. In the early morning, my family members get up early and everyone cleans their bodies, then dress in their best hanbok (traditional Korean clothes). Then my mother and I go to church and pray to God for our ancestors and my father. After that … Read more