a sunday

i've finally started to do some serious unpacking and furniture moving. things are finally starting to take shape at my new place....except for the stinky bathroom. i'm going to have to dump a ton of air fresheners in the drains.

jeju pictures are loaded on my comp but uploading online is a serious pain. i'll eventually get to it along with others.

a very little bit of jeju-do (text)

jeju-do was a-freakin-mazing! we stayed at esther's mom's place for the first and last night and at this retarded-ridiculously-fabulous villa at the lotte hotel. i'll put up pictures in the next post since i'm at school right now. i'll just let the pictures explain the trip it for me. i'm terrible at prose and wont be able to do it any justice (the pictures wont either but it's better than nothing).

anyways, our flight back was brutal. 6:30am to 7:25am. we slept at around midnight and woke up at 3:30am. went straight to work from there. was half teaching/half hallucinating at that point and was surprised i didn't pass out in front of my 4th graders.

the trip was as follows (in no particular order): sight-seeing, screaming, swimming, eating, getting lost, almost falling off a mountain, driving, hiking, birthday surprises, and tons of fun. many many many thanks goes to esther and her mom. this would definitely not have been possible without them.

all-in-all though, the trip was a huge success. to the 4 wonderfully crazy ladies with me on the island, this was a fabulous way to begin this month-long birthday celebration!

cheers to the beginning of the 3/4 of my life.

week 1

i'm on a plane to jeju-do in about 6 hours.

i've signed on for another year in korea and felt a little apprehensive. the feeling's subsided a little the past week. it just feels like routine now.

i'm currently sitting in the english multi-study room with about 5 or 6 students waiting on their after-school classes. about half of them are staring intently at their phones meticulously trying to outdo their last high score from whatever game they are playing. beats their earlier game of serious-physical-harm-blind man's bluff.

after a year here i've gotten used to (for the most part) their violent behaviour and nature. i'm wondering now if kids back home now are just as rough and tumble. i was home for a couple of weeks in the summer time and thought about that observation. perhaps it's just a miscommunication thing.

i made a grade 2 boy cry today. that was a miscommunication thing. kids fighting and making fun of each other...oh my life for one more year.

and round 2 officially begins. ding.