St. Patty's Day

We had a St. Patty's Day party at our new place and invited the Korean teachers and the new foreign teachers. I'd say it was a success, we were told to be quiet by the security guard twice, once because of our use of fireworks shooting from out our windows and the second time was because the people beneath us couldn't sleep. After the second time we settled down and the party broke up but we had all had a pretty good time. It was nice to have a social gathering with everyone from work.

On other news, we have bought one replacement computer to make up for our devastating loss of the notebooks. Instead of getting another laptop I decided to buy a desktop since I could get it for around 500$ instead of a comparable notebook at closer to 1000$. It's nice to have a computer again instead of relying on PC bangs or Jacqui's computer.

School is getting back into the swing of things. The new children are getting used to being at kindergarten and are not crying so much anymore, and the returning classes are happily working on the harder material with varying degree's of success. There are all sorts of new personalities to talk about but I'll save them for another post.

Just wanted to give a brief update about our status here, we still miss home an awful lot, but everything is going well enough in Korea.

Jacqui has arrived

New classes start tomorrow and we have a new roommate, so life is OK right now. We'll find out tomorrow if our new classes are decent , or full of little devils. So far I'm harboring strong hopes that they will be just as cute as our last group. I got three very nice parting gifts from my K8 students. A 35$ tube of Christin Dior lip stick, a 75$ perfume set by Lancome and a face powder by Ana Sui that I gave to a Korean friend because it was too strongly perfumed for me.

I also got ANOTHER honey gift set! This time it was much smaller and a little under 100$ in value. I am set for honey in the event that I renew my contract as my boss so often hints that she would like. I think about once a week we get asked if we're staying another year.

Korea seems a bit overwhelming for our new roomie, but I think once she gets her feet wet teaching the young'uns, she'll feel more at ease. So all is well over here, Lucas and I are going to a second hand computer store with a friend after work and I think that Lucas is planning on buying a computer on the spot. I could see desperation setting in as the 4 day weekend came to an end. I must admit that having a computer again does sound mighty appealing.

Spring has sprung here and the buds have stared to grow here. The weather has turned windy and wet, but it bodes well for flowers and foliage. I hope that everyone back home is doing well. We're down to 6 weeks on our teachers college response letters and I'm getting anxious to find out how our applications fared this year, especially since all of the hours put into them was lost with the notebooks.

Best wishes to all of you bogged down by snow and freezing rain, we'll see you in 5 short months, for a wedding and to catch up with friends and family. We miss you and think of you often. Best wishes for the following weeks and we'll try to post again soon.