Britney's Birthday

Today is Britney's birthday. A bunch of us, Shauna, Christine, Britney, Gina, Steve, Alison, Matt and I went out in Seoul last night to celebrate. We had a great dinner and went to a few bars. We met up with a few people who used to teach at our school, and are now at different schools in Seoul for their second year in Korea. We also met up with a friend of Christine's from home who is teaching near Seoul.

This past week was very crazy at school. We are missing a lot of the students still due to swine flu. Even after our week break, many of the mothers have pulled their kids from LCI until December. The teachers and the owners had a meeting on Friday after school. We decided that we are not going to work on Saturdays or shorten winter vacation due to the swine flu break.

We spent most of Monday and Tuesday revising our class schedules and work because of the break. We are now trying to merge that work with our assigned work. This is making it very hard to fit everything in. The kids are stressed as well with the added work, making the week even longer. On Wednesday, during the lunch hour, one of my Kinder boys, Samuel (the smallest one) basically body slammed one of the girls into the floor sending her to the hospital. She ended up being fine however we were worried that she hurt her leg. This shows you how rough my class truly is!

We were also told to start decorating our rooms for Christmas. Of course, another song contest is involved.

The weather here is starting to get cold! I now have to have my heat on. It is hard to believe that it is already the middle of November! In a few weeks Fred and I will be off to Thailand for Christmas and New Years.


Shauna and I

Britney, Christine and Alison (she teaches at LCI in the city next to Suji)

Most of the staff on Halloween
Back row L-R: Alan, Michael, James, Steve and Blake
Middle row L-R: Michelle (Supervisor), Rebecca (Supervisor), Melanie (Owner), Gina, Janice, Me, Shauna, Jackie (Owner)
Front row: Britney and Christine