Back to Work

On Monday we both headed back to work. The Korean school year begins in March, so we have a new bunch of 7th graders at our school. In addition to new students, there were a number of faculty changes in both of our schools  as well. Both of us have at least one new English co-teacher, so that will be a big change since we work together with them in the classroom. We've also learned that both of our schools will be getting an additional foreign teacher. H's school will get a man and B's school will get a woman. We've been told that these two newbies are married, but they will arrive sometime next week and we'll find out more then.

H is still going out to her rural middle school every Friday (starting on the 6th), and now B will also be picking up an additional school. He's been told that it will be an elementary school, but the details aren't set yet.

Tomorrow (the 6th) after work we will be heading into Seoul to watch the opera, "The Marriage of Figaro." We're looking forward to our second opera experience (the 1st being in Prague when we were studying abroad in '06). We'll spend the night in Seoul since Saturday is our first grad school course of the new school year. We start with an analtyitcal accounting class every Tuesday and Saturday, and in April we'll begin our 4-week long finance class. This semester's classes sound more rigorous than last terms', but we'll see how it goes. 

We'll leave you with a few fun quotes from our new 7th grade students:

"Teacher, what size shoe do you wear?"

"Do you have a gun?"  (When asked why he would ask that, he replied that he read that all Americans own guns).

"Can your cat jump high?"

"What's your blood type?"