I decided after some hesitation to bring in my origami paper to school so I could work on the cranes. While we originally wanted to do all 1000 together, we realized that wasn't realistic and so I figured getting a few done at school each day would add up over time. This week was especially perfect since my students have midterm exams and so I am stuck at my desk all day for 4 days straight. Perfect!
Well, after folding almost 20 on Monday, the teachers finally asked me what I was doing yesterday. I explained the situation, and they all happily wanted to help. Score! Now living in Korea is a plus because almost all Koreans know how to fold paper cranes, unlike a lot of Americans. So I gave them paper and off they went to their desks. After a few minutes I am handed immaculate cranes...not even joking. Their folds are perfect, their heads are angled in just the right way, their tails tall and unwrinkled.
WHAT?! Am I missing something? So these teachers who haven't folded cranes in years whip up the most beautiful ones I've ever seen, while I've folded around 50 so far and they all look terrible!
Come to find out, we're been doing it wrong. Now, although I feel ridiculous about this, it's also not entirely our fault since we went online and read/watched a lot of instructions and they all told us to fold the way we have been. But once my co-teacher went through the process step by step I realized that we were ADDING 4 additional steps and that the way she did it was not only so much faster, but the heads and tails were thicker and so much easier to fold.
Thank GOODNESS we figured this out 85 cranes in instead of 800! Now we've decided to start again, considering there is such a huge difference between our crappy cranes and the new ones.
You live and you learn, as my mom would say :)
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