The Smartest Kid in Class

It's only Day 31 but already Jenn and I are caught up in one of the most important duties of teachers everywhere. That's right, it's report card time. We're supposed to have all our report cards done tomorrow, so the Korean teachers have time to translate our comments before they have to be handed out at the beginning of the month. So we were going to bring the rest home and finish them tonight. And then this package arrived for us and things changed pretty quickly. Jenn's mom sent our winter coats and some sweaters in the mail for us, stuff that wouldn't fit in our luggage, so we were excited to get our new coats (Thanks for sending them Mom Iorio and thanks for buying them Mom Cook). But even more exciting were some magazines that were in the box. Jenn's mom slipped in 8 magazines from home. This is especially exciting since we saw English magazines on the weekend in Seoul and they were outrageously priced: normal mags like Time and People were $10 and I think the cheapest one we saw was Reader's Digest for $8. Jenn and I are magazine junkies, so this was a jackpot for us and we knew right away that we wouldn't be getting any work done at home tonight. I have my 2 favourite magazines (Utne and Outpost) to leaf through and Jenn has plenty of Hollywood trash to get caught up on (People, In Touch, Us). So the report cards are going to wait until tomorrow. I started out with 88 cards to complete and I have about 30 left; Jenn has 72 students all together but she is a little further behind then I am, so we have our work cut out for us tomorrow. Here is Jenn in our dining room working very hard at getting through our new stash of magazines.