Saturday afternoon.

Hello all,

It's Saturday afternoon here.  This wont be long, but I just thought I would give a few updates on Korea.  I still haven't been able to do any regularly blogging due to my top secret project.  It is a computer project and my file crashed last week.  So I had to start over.  I will be close to finishing  this weekend and then next week/weekend is our 5 day weekend and I will have lots of time to finish my project and upload the last month of our lives in Korea.  

Recently our school has hired a new teacher for the computer courses that Andrew and I were doing every 3 days.  We now have about 30 students.  It's been a little tense since our school was under the impression that we would have 100 students by this point.  Andrew and I will miss these computer days for they were very easy on us, and they are now replaced with more classes.  We now have 4 spring classes and 5 red classes.  So almost a 1/3 of our classes are just beginner kids.  Our schedules have been slowly changing from the recommended schedule of our classes and school.  But next month  we will only be teaching 5-6 classes a day.  

On a more interesting note we ate live octopus last night!  It was still moving, but conveniently cut into small pieces. We also had Japanese style sushi and raw fish, salmon, oysters, and some other stuff I didn't know what was but wasn't cooked.   Andrew got a couple of pictures on his iphone so you can look for that soon.

Okay back to work.  Anneyong

Baby, it's cold outside!

Soooo.  Once again we are having water issues.  This time it wasn't the girl upstiars flooding our ceiling.  Yesturday the water pressure started to get really slow.  This is normal when someone is using the water in for laundry or a shower, but it started to decrease to a dribble around 9:30.  We texted our landlord who came over this morning and told us that the pipes which carry water from Gimhae to our town had frozen and bursted! UNDERGROUND!  Apparently Southeastern Korean can't handle below freezing temps at night.  They said it would be fixed today, but it takes 5 hours for the water to pump it's 15 miles distance to us. 

On the plus side, all of those years of boiling water while camping really paid off this morning!

Soon Enough

Hello Family and Friends-

I know I've been MIA from blogger and flickr for awhile.  I wanted to let you know I haven't died.  I'm just really busy. I'm working on a top secret project that is taking up all of my free time. So in a few quick words (because I'm at work) I will share what we've been doing. 

For New Years we went to Seoul with Becky and Nick.  When I'm done with this project (roughly 2 weeks) I will post my photos and tell you about my favorites, and better yet what I want to do when we go back in June.

The weekend after we went to home plus and Bugoh Hawaii with Kang and his family.  We Enjoyed a great day of tubing, ice sculptures, and a traditional Korean Bath House.

This week at work has been crazy hectic!  We have had open classes every day, where parents and perspective students can sit in on our classes and see just how well we teach.  With reassurance from Glen, we are great teachers!  Tomorrow (Friday) we are coming to work around 9:15 am to go to a kindergarten orientation to hand out notebooks and hopefully get our student count up.  I think we are around 25 students now.  If we have around 60-70 students by the end of March we will be able to stay open.  If not we have been told our friend Jack (who owns lots of schools) will help place us at a new school, probably in Masan or Changwon.

At school I've been learning a little Korean.  I use these words almost every class.  I included how to pronounce them, and not in the grammatically correct kinda way.

Hurry - "ball-ie!  ball-ie!"

Folder - "pie-ile"

Memorize - "way-ou-say-yo"

Then this weekend we finally have a little time to ourselves.  I think Andrew will take a little time off from his video games and do some sketching and reading, and I will continue to work on my top secret project. (It's a secret because it's a surprise, but I will show you all when I'm done with it).

And in the meantime you can check out Andrew's Blog to read more in depth about what we've been doing!  Especially since I've been told by more than one of you that "Andrew is such a great writer!" I agree, so enjoy.