Unofficially speaking with no free time...

We do send our heartfelt apologies to all of you hard core bloggers out there for not keeping up our end of things. We came here expecting to have much more free time on our hands and that is not really the case. Also, it doesn't help matters that this computer is in Korean and I am pretty hopeless beyond hotmail, which I have memorized.

We are at the school for 10 hours a day (mind you that is not all teaching time) and all our free time is sucked into making lesson plans. You see, we were given a wack load of books and students all at once with really no explanation as what to do with either. Our classes are 45 minutes long and the material we have to cover takes up all of 5 minutes. Games are really frowned upon because "Mother doesn't like." (but that doesn't stop us, come on, we have to do something with them) The children are paying a hefty tuition to attend here and parents want to see lots of work done but they complain when you go to fast because they have to buy new books. It is up to us to stretch it out. I really think things are looking up for next week. We are familiar enough with the kids and we will be following our lesson plans. Up until now we were finishing off what Dan and Karin had planned and while I'm sure it made a lot of sense to them...

We still do not have a computer at home so we will be off line for the weekend. Saturday will be spent in Seoul and Sunday will consist of figuring out the washing machine and doing some grocery shopping (sounds like fun, eh!)

By the way, this is an unofficial blog post, treat it more like a mass email to let you know what is up on our end. More articulate things to follow (we are still jet lagged) Stay tuned....