Life, As of Late

I haven't posted much about what I've been doing here lately because for a while, there wasn't much to post about. After the Japan trip, things kind of slowed down for a while. Life was just normal, day in day out, nothing special going on. We did a couple weekend trips to the beach. Jason went home for a week to go to a wedding. He was gone over a four day weekend, so I spent a lot of "me" time then, which was actually really great. But in the last week or so, a little bit more has been going on.

Here at our school, there are five English teachers and then four people on the Korean staff. Jean, the academic director, is who we go to for pretty much anything we need. She is so great and so helpful and speaks the best English out of all the staff. She is the go to lady. She helps us with anything, whether it is school related or not. Last week, a meeting was called and it was announced that Jean would be leaving us because of "personal reasons." We were told that on Monday and then Tuesday was her last day. There will be no one coming in to take her place, so Ronnie, the owner and director of the school, will be in Jean's place. However, since Jean left, Ronnie hasn't changed a thing about what she does here at the school. She still comes in late everyday and then just sits and talks with the other Korean staff. She's not constantly working on things the way Jean always did. And Ronnie just isn't a very approachable person; you don't really want to go a talk to her about something unless it's completely necessary. Jean is the type of person who knows what is going on with every student in the school. Not Ronnie. Basically, all of us teachers are just going to have to get used to figuring things out for ourselves, because no one else here knows what is supposed to be done, either. So we'll see how that goes over in the next few months.

But on a better note.... We went on a weekend trip this past weekend to a city down south called Gyung ju. Really nice place. It was once the capital of the Shilla dynasty, so there's a lot of history there; kind of like the Rome of Korea.... kind of. But I'll write more about that later, once I upload all the photos from the trip.

And I think we're going to do a few more weekend trips in the coming weeks. One to Soraksan, a famous mountain and good hiking area. And then another one to a city a couple hours away where Jason has a soccer game coming up. (He plays in a soccer league every Sunday. Most the games are fairly nearby to where we live, but there are a couple outside of Seoul. It's a really international club, which is kind of fun. His team includes people from 5 different continents.) This past weekend was our last 3 day weekend until our Christmas break. Oh maaan that's a lot of full work weeks....

Until next time, hope all is well back home. Love and miss you all.