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Describe a unique festival/holiday/celebration/custom you have experienced or heard of.

__The Italian Street Painting Festival__
The Italian Street Painting Festival is where professional painters paint amazing arts in the streets, and little children experience what it is like to be a street painter. Many bands perform on stages ,and the Italian food court provides food. On Saturday, there are special activities and performances for kids. There are also special activities for younger kids such as Latin American sing along, Mexican folk dancing, the Brazilian samba, and much much more!



__Boryeong Mud Festival__
During summer in Daechon Beach, people apply mud all over their body. The reason they do this is because they believe the Boryeong mud contains minerals which reduces wrinkles and oil from the skin. They also have mud body painting contests, a mud beauty contest, mud massages, and mud sculpture contest.
 * Boryeong or Daechon is a city in South Korea.



What are some interesting folktales/fables/fairy tales/legends you’ve heard?

__RED RIDING HOOD: Mingee Choi__
There are many versions of this famous tale, but it all starts with a little girl who was going to visit her sick grandma. She goes to the woods, and she meets a wolf who wants to eat her. The wolf goes to her grandmother's house and swallow her grandmother whole. Then the wolf disguises himself as the little girl's grandmother. When the little girl reaches her grandmother's house, she realizes that her grandmother looks very peculiar. Fortunately, a woodcutter /hunter comes by and rescues her. He cuts the wolf's belly and gets the little girl's grandmother safe and alive. After that, they put stones in the wolf's body and throw him in the river. However, in the earliest versions of this story, the wolf cuts up her grandmother and gives the little girl her grandmother's blood and meat to eat. After that, the wolf ask her to come to bed with her, and the wolf eats her. In other versions, the little girl finds out that the wolf is not her grandmother and tries to escape.