The countdown has officially begun. Actually, it began a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't had the inspiration to write a post recently. I am leaving on June 29th and I am very excited.
I have eight teaching days left, and I'm so ready to go home. It has been way too long. And I need a vacation. It's very weird thinking about leaving after I've spent the past 14 months adjusting to a new country. I'm also a little weirded out by the idea that I will be able to understand everything everyone says again. I've gotten so used to walking around in a fog of Korean. I have many plans that include eating steak, salad, sleeping and getting ready for grad school. I am also taking a brief vacation to Miami for my friend's wedding. Super excited.
Seoul seems to have had a very harmful effect on my skin. I don't know what it is exactly, maybe it's the air, the stress, dirty children germs, the diet or a combination of all of these. I'm really hoping it clears up when I get home and have less stress and cleaner air.
I've noticed I've picked up some very odd English after being exposed to Korean-English, or Konglish, for so long. For example, they call the United States, "America", and wet wipes, "water tissue." I'm sure there are others that I've picked up but it's going to make for some interesting English conversation when I get back.
I know that I am not completely up-to-date on American politics, but after living in a country where there is national health care, I don't understand why there are people who are, or in the past have been, against government run or regulated health care. I had minor surgery twice last summer to remove a cyst on my lip, and in total, including doctor visit, prescriptions, and followups, it cost me about $200. I went to a nice hospital, didn't have to wait longer than normal and it was exactly like, if not better, than care that we already get in the US. In the States, this probably would have cost me several thousand dollars, and been impractical because it was non-life threatening. This month, I have been to the doctor three times for various reasons and have not spent more than $100 so far on visits and prescriptions. While they tend to over-medicate here (which is not terrible if you don't go to the doctor for every little cough or sneeze), the affordability of healthcare here makes it much more likely that people who become seriously sick will know it sooner and be able to receive treatment and recover.
The expense of the American health care system means that people are less likely to know about serious illness until it is too late to effectively treat it because they are hesitant to spend the money needed to see the doctor unless it is necessary. This is a terrible way to maintain the health and productivity of a country. While I am really looking forward to returning home, I am somewhat reluctant simply because I do not have the same excellent health care options, and will instead have to pay ridiculous premiums just for basic prescriptions and brief visit to the doctor. This is something that I will have to deal with, but I sincerely hope that the country finds some sort of solution to this problem and stops bickering just because they want the other party to be wrong no matter what.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
April Showers Bring Late April Flowers?
Spring has sprung, and was then subsequently drowned in two days of continuous rain. The cherry blossoms started coming out last week. The street where I lived was beautiful, with pink blossom covered trees lining one side. I was planning to go see the blossoms in the park this weekend, but I was interrupted by the rain that started in the middle of the night Friday and continued through Sunday. Unfortunately, the rain knocked most of the flowers off the trees, so they're not so pretty to look at anymore. There seems to be a little recovery, with new blossoms opening, so maybe it will be nice again by this weekend and I'll get to go.
I started taking official Korean classes on Saturdays, as well as having language exchanges once a week with my Korean co-teacher, whose name also happens to be Sarah. I am extremely determined to make the most of my last two months here and I should at least be functional in Korean by the time I leave. I'm crossing my fingers.
My internet was turned off on Friday. It is entirely not my fault. The internet company is trying to force me into linking my internet account with my bank account, but I whole heartedly refuse. Instead, I seem to recieve my internet bill quarterly, not monthly. I when I first noticed that they weren't sending them monthly, Jamie spent a half hour on the phone with them arguing about who was to blame. They said that it wasn't their fault, it was the delivery service's fault so they wouldn't take any late fees off my account. This is when they suggested I hook it to my bank account so I never would have late fees again. I hadn't gotten my bill for 4 months and they finally decided to turn it off. I was planning on calling them tomorrow, when surprise, my bill was waiting for me when I got home. I really don't understand. Hopefully they'll turn it back on after I pay tomorrow. You may be asking yourself, "Then how is she writing a blog post?" I am using my phone as a hot spot. Thank you iPhone.
For those of you that I have not been informed, I am coming home at the end of June, instead of July. I have too many things to do to get ready for grad school. I am also overly stressed and have developed a chronic under-eye twitch from what I assume is a combination of not enough sleep, too much caffeine and stress. It needs to stop.
Speaking of graduate school, I have been accepted, and will be attending the University of Southern California in the the fall, and I couldn't be happier. Okay, well I could be happier if they give me a large scholarship, but I'm still pretty darn happy.
And now, to clean my apartment!
Korean number of the day: 십사 (sheeb-sah) or 열네 (yeol-nay) - fourteen
Korean word/phrase of the day: 봄 (pome) - spring, 봄이에요 (pome-ee-yay-oh) - it's spring
I started taking official Korean classes on Saturdays, as well as having language exchanges once a week with my Korean co-teacher, whose name also happens to be Sarah. I am extremely determined to make the most of my last two months here and I should at least be functional in Korean by the time I leave. I'm crossing my fingers.
My internet was turned off on Friday. It is entirely not my fault. The internet company is trying to force me into linking my internet account with my bank account, but I whole heartedly refuse. Instead, I seem to recieve my internet bill quarterly, not monthly. I when I first noticed that they weren't sending them monthly, Jamie spent a half hour on the phone with them arguing about who was to blame. They said that it wasn't their fault, it was the delivery service's fault so they wouldn't take any late fees off my account. This is when they suggested I hook it to my bank account so I never would have late fees again. I hadn't gotten my bill for 4 months and they finally decided to turn it off. I was planning on calling them tomorrow, when surprise, my bill was waiting for me when I got home. I really don't understand. Hopefully they'll turn it back on after I pay tomorrow. You may be asking yourself, "Then how is she writing a blog post?" I am using my phone as a hot spot. Thank you iPhone.
For those of you that I have not been informed, I am coming home at the end of June, instead of July. I have too many things to do to get ready for grad school. I am also overly stressed and have developed a chronic under-eye twitch from what I assume is a combination of not enough sleep, too much caffeine and stress. It needs to stop.
Speaking of graduate school, I have been accepted, and will be attending the University of Southern California in the the fall, and I couldn't be happier. Okay, well I could be happier if they give me a large scholarship, but I'm still pretty darn happy.
And now, to clean my apartment!
Korean number of the day: 십사 (sheeb-sah) or 열네 (yeol-nay) - fourteen
Korean word/phrase of the day: 봄 (pome) - spring, 봄이에요 (pome-ee-yay-oh) - it's spring
Monday, April 2, 2012
I went to my first Korean wedding yesterday. It was very nice, but I definitely prefer the Western version better. It was the wedding of the art teacher at my school, Tiffany, who was the designated punisher of small children. She recently quit because she didn't have the new principal in her pocket and there wasn't going to be a class of four year olds to teach this year. It was apparently a huge wedding in terms of Korean weddings. There is still a ceremony, that is similar to a Western ceremony, but it is much shorter, and there wasn't even room for everyone to sit. Also, many people skipped the ceremony all together and headed for the food. There is a public ceremony and a private, more traditional ceremony afterwards while people are eating, but basically the focus of the wedding seemed to be food. It was all held in the same building with the food buffet a floor down from the ceremony. They had huge screens of the ceremony set up in the banquet hall so that you could eat and watch. The bride and groom didn't even eat with the rest of the people, they came in much later and said hi. There was no dancing, no cake, no speeches, nothing like that. It just seemed really impersonal and more focused on the food than on the union of the two people getting married. It was also ridiculously crowded. I personally prefer the Western style.
After the wedding I had some lovely shopping time with Kelsey and finally fulfilled my dream of owning a trench coat. It is blue and lovely. I also got some awesome polka dot heels. The trip reminded me why I don't go shopping often. I have a problem.
A new teacher arrived last week. Her name is Carly and she seems very competent and has a lot of experience teaching already so I'm fairly excited. She moved into her new apartment and apparently during cleaning they had taken away all of her towels and sheets and things that Erik had left, like most of the foreign teachers leave for the new teachers. I mean, what are we going to do with a pile of bedding and towels, take them back to the US? It's just not logical. It's also much more helpful to the new teachers because then they don't have to worry about finding these things right after they get here and haven't been payed yet. It's not in our contracts that they provide these things so I guess they thought it was okay to throw them out. Still sucks though. I gave her some pillows and blankets.
The weather really sucks lately. Today it's rainy, windy and disgusting. It wouldn't be so bad except for the wind. Thank goodness for rain boots.
Korean number of the day: 십삼 (ship-sam) or 열세 (yeol-say) - thirteen
Korean word/phrase of the day: 짜증나 (jjah-jeung-na) - How annoying!/That's annoying!
After the wedding I had some lovely shopping time with Kelsey and finally fulfilled my dream of owning a trench coat. It is blue and lovely. I also got some awesome polka dot heels. The trip reminded me why I don't go shopping often. I have a problem.
A new teacher arrived last week. Her name is Carly and she seems very competent and has a lot of experience teaching already so I'm fairly excited. She moved into her new apartment and apparently during cleaning they had taken away all of her towels and sheets and things that Erik had left, like most of the foreign teachers leave for the new teachers. I mean, what are we going to do with a pile of bedding and towels, take them back to the US? It's just not logical. It's also much more helpful to the new teachers because then they don't have to worry about finding these things right after they get here and haven't been payed yet. It's not in our contracts that they provide these things so I guess they thought it was okay to throw them out. Still sucks though. I gave her some pillows and blankets.
The weather really sucks lately. Today it's rainy, windy and disgusting. It wouldn't be so bad except for the wind. Thank goodness for rain boots.
Korean number of the day: 십삼 (ship-sam) or 열세 (yeol-say) - thirteen
Korean word/phrase of the day: 짜증나 (jjah-jeung-na) - How annoying!/That's annoying!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Unfortunately I'm not Irish
It's so strange how you can be an integral part of a child's life everyday for almost a year and then never see them again. Being a teacher is way different than being a parent, but I still feel like a second mother to the kindergartners that I had last year and it is such a strange feeling not to see them everyday and that I will probably never see them again.
I have noticed something very strange as late, as I am trying to find new spring/summer work shoes: Koreans have a fascination with really nice, name brand sneakers and they are readily available, but when it comes to nice dress shoes that don't cost an arm and a leg, Korean stores are severely lacking. Cheap dress shoes are plentiful, but often these very poor quality and not comfortable at all, especially when they have heels. When it comes to shoes, it is very important to me to buy well made, good quality dress shoes. It can really screw up your feet if you are wearing ill-fitting, uncomfortable shoes as well as making your day worse because your feet are killing you. I'm going to need to go on a good shoe spree when I get home. Le sigh. I miss TJ Maxx and outlet stores.
I took a little adventure for St. Paddy's Day. I went on a booze cruise with Erik, Brittany and a Korean helper teacher who has been wanting to work on his English. It was fairly entertaining. It had the best beer that I've had in almost a year. Have a mentioned that Korean beer is all very light and has no real flavor? It's no good in my opinion. There were people walking up to the boat carrying their own bottles of everything you could imagine. I personally found this strange because it was an all-you-can-drink cruise that you had to pay for so I don't understand why you would want to pay for alcohol to take onto the boat full of unlimited alcohol that you had already paid for. The food was pretty good too. There was a pig roast and a variety of wraps to choose from. We made a stop half way through the three hour cruise at the dock again to "buy more alcohol and use the bathroom" but I really think it was to see if some of the drunk people would wander off and never make it back to the boat which was ridiculously crowded. St. Patrick's Day is a very strange holiday to explain to Koreans, as well as being a strange holiday to celebrate at school considering we don't celebrate Independence Day or several other more meaningful American holidays. How do you explain to small Korean children that the holiday we are celebrating is about some guy who lived a long time ago and we wear green and drink lots of alcohol to celebrate? It just doesn't make sense.
So instead of explaining, we just painted their faces and made shamrock crowns. Two of my kids wanted to be painted like a tiger and a cheetah. It was adorable.
I have noticed something very strange as late, as I am trying to find new spring/summer work shoes: Koreans have a fascination with really nice, name brand sneakers and they are readily available, but when it comes to nice dress shoes that don't cost an arm and a leg, Korean stores are severely lacking. Cheap dress shoes are plentiful, but often these very poor quality and not comfortable at all, especially when they have heels. When it comes to shoes, it is very important to me to buy well made, good quality dress shoes. It can really screw up your feet if you are wearing ill-fitting, uncomfortable shoes as well as making your day worse because your feet are killing you. I'm going to need to go on a good shoe spree when I get home. Le sigh. I miss TJ Maxx and outlet stores.
I took a little adventure for St. Paddy's Day. I went on a booze cruise with Erik, Brittany and a Korean helper teacher who has been wanting to work on his English. It was fairly entertaining. It had the best beer that I've had in almost a year. Have a mentioned that Korean beer is all very light and has no real flavor? It's no good in my opinion. There were people walking up to the boat carrying their own bottles of everything you could imagine. I personally found this strange because it was an all-you-can-drink cruise that you had to pay for so I don't understand why you would want to pay for alcohol to take onto the boat full of unlimited alcohol that you had already paid for. The food was pretty good too. There was a pig roast and a variety of wraps to choose from. We made a stop half way through the three hour cruise at the dock again to "buy more alcohol and use the bathroom" but I really think it was to see if some of the drunk people would wander off and never make it back to the boat which was ridiculously crowded. St. Patrick's Day is a very strange holiday to explain to Koreans, as well as being a strange holiday to celebrate at school considering we don't celebrate Independence Day or several other more meaningful American holidays. How do you explain to small Korean children that the holiday we are celebrating is about some guy who lived a long time ago and we wear green and drink lots of alcohol to celebrate? It just doesn't make sense.
So instead of explaining, we just painted their faces and made shamrock crowns. Two of my kids wanted to be painted like a tiger and a cheetah. It was adorable.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Why is my gym always closed on days that I have off? Those are always the days I want to go the most because I'm not pressed for time and don't typically have to get up early to go. Stupid gym. Make me get up at 6, get dressed and everything and then be closed when I get there. Not cool.
I have officially changed my internal clock. I can no longer sleep past 8am. It's a very odd sensation, especially considering my past sleeping habits, ie college time. It's very weird to just pop awake at 7:30am after spending 23 years not wanting to get up until 10.
I finally made it to the gourmet ice cream place. It was fabulous. I will probably make another trip there this weekend, assuming that I am not hella lazy. They had some really unusual flavors. I got lavender-honey and carrot cake. They were both delicious. They also had a carrot orange sorbet, nut job (mixed nuts), fennel, and lemon cream just to name a few. Very odd sounding, I know, but the guy who owns this place is an ice cream genius.
The weather has been unseasonably warm as of late. It got up into the high fifties a couple of days this week, and has been hanging out above freezing. I don't know whether it's just teasing or if it's actually spring. I feel like if I mail my sweaters home now it will get really cold again and I will be sad and cold with not enough layers. I've actually resorted to wearing my rain boots because apparently as soon as it gets a little warm it starts raining like nobody's business.
Big surprise: CURLY HAIR!! I got a perm. And no, it's not the 80s. They now how to do them in a tasteful fashion now. It's somewhere between curly and wavy, but slightly more on the curly side. I almost wish it were a little curlier so that I didn't have to put product in it to bring the curls out as much. Pictures will follow I'm sure.
I am officially off coffee and sweets (minus occasional dark chocolate and ice cream), for the rest of lent. This means lots of tea and no highly sugared things, whether it is baked, candy, or otherwise. So far the coffee thing isn't so bad, but I literally keep forgetting about the sweets thing and will remember after I've eaten something. It's gradually getting better.
I have officially changed my internal clock. I can no longer sleep past 8am. It's a very odd sensation, especially considering my past sleeping habits, ie college time. It's very weird to just pop awake at 7:30am after spending 23 years not wanting to get up until 10.
I finally made it to the gourmet ice cream place. It was fabulous. I will probably make another trip there this weekend, assuming that I am not hella lazy. They had some really unusual flavors. I got lavender-honey and carrot cake. They were both delicious. They also had a carrot orange sorbet, nut job (mixed nuts), fennel, and lemon cream just to name a few. Very odd sounding, I know, but the guy who owns this place is an ice cream genius.
The weather has been unseasonably warm as of late. It got up into the high fifties a couple of days this week, and has been hanging out above freezing. I don't know whether it's just teasing or if it's actually spring. I feel like if I mail my sweaters home now it will get really cold again and I will be sad and cold with not enough layers. I've actually resorted to wearing my rain boots because apparently as soon as it gets a little warm it starts raining like nobody's business.
Big surprise: CURLY HAIR!! I got a perm. And no, it's not the 80s. They now how to do them in a tasteful fashion now. It's somewhere between curly and wavy, but slightly more on the curly side. I almost wish it were a little curlier so that I didn't have to put product in it to bring the curls out as much. Pictures will follow I'm sure.
I am officially off coffee and sweets (minus occasional dark chocolate and ice cream), for the rest of lent. This means lots of tea and no highly sugared things, whether it is baked, candy, or otherwise. So far the coffee thing isn't so bad, but I literally keep forgetting about the sweets thing and will remember after I've eaten something. It's gradually getting better.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Happy Leap Day!
It's that special day that only comes once every four years: Leap Day!! If you haven't yet, I recommend you watch the most recent episode of 30 Rock. You will understand when you watch it.
These last two weeks have been busy and a little ridiculous.
First, major drama. The new teacher ran away. She was here for one night and then didn't show up for training the next day. According to her, things had been bad at home and then she got news after she arrived here and had to go home within 24 hours of arriving. This seems kind of ridiculous. Personally, I think she got freaked out and ran away. We had a very panicked 24 hours at work trying to figure out what the heck to do.
In the process of dealing with the crisis, it was discovered that Yina is no longer coming to teach here. Sad face. She apparently got her dream job in the US and is not coming back to teach in Korea. Excellent for her, sad news for me and the school. We finally got a who taught over our month of winter intensive courses to come back and teach for a couple of months until we get a more permanent solution.
I have spent a lot of time prepping my class for graduation and I even had to write my own speech. If you know anything about my writing, you know that I am a huge procrastinator. I finally finished it the night before graduation. Then my babies graduated. They all did an excellent job with their speech during the ceremony. I said my speech. They said goodbye. I cried a wee bit. I will miss my little munchkins.
Today was Erik's last day of work. Tiffany, the Korean teacher in charge of arts and crafts and punishment, is also leaving. It's always weird when teachers leave and we get new ones. It kind of throws off the whole atmosphere of the office. He's not leaving Korea though, so he'll still be around occasionally which is nice.
I have the day off tomorrow, but I left work with the news that one of the students in my new kindergarten this year quit, leaving my class with only two people. To open a class, there need to be three people enrolled in it. So I'm freaking out. I don't know what's going to happen our how it's going to be resolved. I really want to have a kindergarten class this year. I think it's in my contract that I'm supposed to have a kindergarten class. In any case, there are two less kindergarten classes this year so we don't have as many extra classes to go around. Even with the one that I'm supposed to have, I would still have five fewer class per week because of the lower class to teacher ratio.
I'm getting my hair did tomorrow. Surprises to follow.
These last two weeks have been busy and a little ridiculous.
First, major drama. The new teacher ran away. She was here for one night and then didn't show up for training the next day. According to her, things had been bad at home and then she got news after she arrived here and had to go home within 24 hours of arriving. This seems kind of ridiculous. Personally, I think she got freaked out and ran away. We had a very panicked 24 hours at work trying to figure out what the heck to do.
In the process of dealing with the crisis, it was discovered that Yina is no longer coming to teach here. Sad face. She apparently got her dream job in the US and is not coming back to teach in Korea. Excellent for her, sad news for me and the school. We finally got a who taught over our month of winter intensive courses to come back and teach for a couple of months until we get a more permanent solution.
I have spent a lot of time prepping my class for graduation and I even had to write my own speech. If you know anything about my writing, you know that I am a huge procrastinator. I finally finished it the night before graduation. Then my babies graduated. They all did an excellent job with their speech during the ceremony. I said my speech. They said goodbye. I cried a wee bit. I will miss my little munchkins.
Today was Erik's last day of work. Tiffany, the Korean teacher in charge of arts and crafts and punishment, is also leaving. It's always weird when teachers leave and we get new ones. It kind of throws off the whole atmosphere of the office. He's not leaving Korea though, so he'll still be around occasionally which is nice.
I have the day off tomorrow, but I left work with the news that one of the students in my new kindergarten this year quit, leaving my class with only two people. To open a class, there need to be three people enrolled in it. So I'm freaking out. I don't know what's going to happen our how it's going to be resolved. I really want to have a kindergarten class this year. I think it's in my contract that I'm supposed to have a kindergarten class. In any case, there are two less kindergarten classes this year so we don't have as many extra classes to go around. Even with the one that I'm supposed to have, I would still have five fewer class per week because of the lower class to teacher ratio.
I'm getting my hair did tomorrow. Surprises to follow.
Monday, February 20, 2012
I have Valentine's Day Chocolate overload
It's that time of year again, when people show their love through consumerism. Now don't get me wrong, I love chocolate, I just think it's stupid to designate one day a year to show you love someone. It's really the greeting card companies' faults. In Korea, Valentine's Day coincides with a holiday that they call Red Day. On Red Day, girls are supposed to give gifts to the boys that they like. One month later, on White Day, boys who got things from girls are supposed to give three times what the girl gave them if they reciprocate the feelings. That leaves April 14th, Black Day, for all of those who didn't get presents to celebrate. I assume this means eats lots of candy and cookies and cry into a gallon tub of ice cream as a group.
Will miracles never cease? I stumbled upon a Popeye's chicken fairly close to my apartment. I have never seen one of these in Korea and was completely dumbfounded. I mean I can't even remember seeing a KFC (although I know they exist here) and KFC's parent company has pretty well invaded the market with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Also, Korean's don't seem particularly partial to spicy, or at least foreign versions of spicy.
At this point, I am impatiently waiting to hear back from graduate schools. I have a huge range of dates in which I could hear back from them and I'm pretty darn antsy. I have all of my taxes done and I almost (stupid website) have my FAFSA completed so I am in the home stretch and have pretty much nothing left to do but wait. Ugh, waiting.
I had a very eventful day last week. It started with two of my kids hitting each other (which they know they are not supposed to do) and me taking them to the teacher's room because it had happened one too many times. The kid who was doing the most hitting (who is also the kid who stole some stickers about a month ago and got caught) got in so much trouble that he had to go downstairs and talk to the principal and almost got sent home. He then came back to class crying, which is something I have only seen him do twice, once because he got soap in his eye and once because he felt sick. This all happened within the first 40 minutes of class. Everything went pretty pleasantly for the next hour or so. One of the girls was complaining that she was really hungry because she didn't like snack so she didn't eat it. She was starting to look like people do when they're so hungry they can't function. About ten minutes before lunch time, she proceeds to ralph all over her desk, sweater and tights. Luckily, because she hadn't eaten anything for a while, it was mostly just liquid. We got her cleaned up and she tried to eat a little bit of lunch, then went downstairs to sleep until her mom could pick her up. Thankfully, the rest of the day went pretty normally.
It's almost the end of the school year. My little kindergarten boogers are graduating in a week and a half and I'm getting pretty sad about it. I'm not really a big crier, so I don't think that will be a problem, but only two of them are coming back to afternoon classes in March. Have I mentioned that I have to make a speech at graduation as well? Yeah, still not done with that. I am a major procrastinator. A new American teacher is arriving on Wednesday as well. She is going to replace Erik. At the very least, this week won't be boring.
New person next week
Will miracles never cease? I stumbled upon a Popeye's chicken fairly close to my apartment. I have never seen one of these in Korea and was completely dumbfounded. I mean I can't even remember seeing a KFC (although I know they exist here) and KFC's parent company has pretty well invaded the market with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Also, Korean's don't seem particularly partial to spicy, or at least foreign versions of spicy.
At this point, I am impatiently waiting to hear back from graduate schools. I have a huge range of dates in which I could hear back from them and I'm pretty darn antsy. I have all of my taxes done and I almost (stupid website) have my FAFSA completed so I am in the home stretch and have pretty much nothing left to do but wait. Ugh, waiting.
I had a very eventful day last week. It started with two of my kids hitting each other (which they know they are not supposed to do) and me taking them to the teacher's room because it had happened one too many times. The kid who was doing the most hitting (who is also the kid who stole some stickers about a month ago and got caught) got in so much trouble that he had to go downstairs and talk to the principal and almost got sent home. He then came back to class crying, which is something I have only seen him do twice, once because he got soap in his eye and once because he felt sick. This all happened within the first 40 minutes of class. Everything went pretty pleasantly for the next hour or so. One of the girls was complaining that she was really hungry because she didn't like snack so she didn't eat it. She was starting to look like people do when they're so hungry they can't function. About ten minutes before lunch time, she proceeds to ralph all over her desk, sweater and tights. Luckily, because she hadn't eaten anything for a while, it was mostly just liquid. We got her cleaned up and she tried to eat a little bit of lunch, then went downstairs to sleep until her mom could pick her up. Thankfully, the rest of the day went pretty normally.
It's almost the end of the school year. My little kindergarten boogers are graduating in a week and a half and I'm getting pretty sad about it. I'm not really a big crier, so I don't think that will be a problem, but only two of them are coming back to afternoon classes in March. Have I mentioned that I have to make a speech at graduation as well? Yeah, still not done with that. I am a major procrastinator. A new American teacher is arriving on Wednesday as well. She is going to replace Erik. At the very least, this week won't be boring.
New person next week
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