Day to Day Stuff

The students here in Korea have all been on winter break since just before Christmas and are enjoying their last few days of vacation . . . for now.

The kids come back to school this Monday (Feb.4) and have class Mon & Tues. Then, in honor of the biggest holiday in Korea, Lunar New Year, they will be off the rest of the week. They will come back for one week and then the sixth graders will graduate and the school year here will be over! Students will have a two week "Spring Break" and then the new school year will begin the first week of March! Seems odd, doesn't it?

For us, as Native English Teachers, we have been and will continue to work through the breaks. We took our 2 weeks vacation over Christmas, of course, and when we came back jumped right into Winter Camps. Cory had Winter Camp for 4 weeks and I (Jen) was fortunate to have it for only 3. The camps have been set up a little differently for us both, but consist of only morning teaching hours. Afternoon have been spent preparing for other lessons and sometimes . . . surfing the net.

I've NEVER been bored at work before . . . but this week I have had some trouble keeping busy, I have to admit. I did a lot of cleaning and organizing, and tried to heal our seriously ill classroom computer. Apparently with my thumb drive I carried it's viruses around to 2 other computers - one at school and ours at home. My AMAZING husband was able to heal our home computer and get our anti-virus back up and running. I used his method to fix my computer at school, but the one in my classroom is too far gone. The computer guy came, but he doesn't speak much English so I couldn't really explain everything - just showed him as best I could.

So, that's life right now. Cory has been progressing quickly through his Tiger Woods xbox game and I made a chocolate cake last night that was terrible. I make so many "adjustments" to recipes here it makes it hard for me to pinpoint which one might be the problem! I am skeptical of the cocoa powder - it doesn't seem to be the same as what you & I are used to - so I think I'm going to break down and buy the American Hershey's cocoa at the basement mart that costs at least one big toe!

We hope to do some traveling next week over the Lunar New Year holiday - so if we do we'll be sure to fill you in! Take care, everyone, and thanks for taking the time to read our blog!