Hello everyone, let's start with a little honesty......I'm obviously not good at keeping up with this blog! haha Every time I say I'm going to try to get better at updating but I never do, sorry! I wont make that promise again this time but I'm not planning on never writing anymore either, basically don't expect it to change I guess. :)
Anyway, since last time I have been up and down and things have been crazy and calm. Our new school year started in March and it has been crazy trying to adjust to new students and the lack of english they know as well as the fact that they don't know the rules at school. They are starting to do better now and calm down but there are still days I just want to pull my hair out while screaming at the top of my lungs "SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN!" Don't worry though I never do that! I'm also teaching six year olds instead of 7 year olds this year so that has taken some getting used to as well. For the most part most of my kids are pretty cute though and I have a couple that are super smart so that makes it nice.
Outside of work I have been adjusting to coming home to an empty house. At first it was a little hard but now it's gotten a lot better. Weekends I've taken advantage of the nicer weather and gone exploring and hung out with friends around here. Definitely had some really good time lately over the weekends! Last weekend we had a BBQ over at Nic and Laurens and just hung out, ate and sat outside. It was so great and the food was AWESOME!!! Can not wait to do that again. The next few weeks are already full of things going on, I LOVE this spring weather. Next weekend looks like we'll be going to the Russian quarter, then its May and the first weekend we're going on a teachers over night to an island on Friday then Saturday me, Lauren, Nic, Bob, Justine (new teacher), Erin and who ever else are all going to the international food festival, SUPER excited about that. The second weekend in May Lauren, Erin, Justine, and I are all going down to Busan for a girls weekend! The last two weekends the Ditty's will be here so I'm sure I will be seeing a lot of them. So yeah as you can see going to be a busy few weekends and I'm excited for it!
Like I said earlier though not everything has been all up. On Easter I found out that one of the most amazing, beautiful, cutest little boys I knew passed away. As most of you know I worked at the Ronald McDonald House before coming over here. While working there I got pretty close to a family that was there often. Jenn and Travis are AMAZING parents and they have the cutest and smartest children also so it was of course very easy to fall in love with them all. Their youngest, Gabe, was only three and had been fighting cancer for about 2 years before he passed away. Being over here and not being able to go to the funeral or just go give them a hug was really hard. I was angry and sad and honestly still am a little. I don't understand why things like this happen to such wonderful children. This is not the first time I've dealt with a child I was close to passing but it never gets easier. I know they are no longer in pain and that that is a good thing but it's still hard. I will never forget the children and families I've met from that place and think about them often.
Ok now before I start crying again let's move on to my very exciting plans that I am making! Summer vacation is coming up fast, it's the week at the end of July first of August. I am going to Malaysia and to Singapore!!!! I am SO SO SO VERY EXCITED about it too! I'm leaving Friday the 27th and flying into Kuala Lumpur and then staying there for two nights then up to Penang island where George Town is at and staying there for a few days and after that down to Singapore where I will finish the trip off staying there for a couple more days before flying back to Korea! Right now I only have the flight to KL booked but I have a few things in mind that I want to do and am slowly making a list of things to see and do. This will be first trip alone and I thought I would be nervous but instead I find myself overly excited and can not wait to wander around exploring and hopefully meet some cool people along the way.
I think that is about all for now. If not sorry, I have a headache and had to stop in the middle of this to skype with mom and grandma so I've also lost motivation to keep writing more! haha sorries! ;) Anyway, hope everyone is doing well I love and miss you all!
S
