Birthday fun

Celebrating with my Korean friends from the left:
Jang (dont know the next two people) Taehyun, me, JB, Hanmie, Kevin, and Sung-o

I not only turned 30 this year I got to do it in Korea! How many people can say that! Pretty cool already :)

Birthday day 1:
I showed up to school (with my tiara that came in the care package...hand made of course) and Mark had all the kids bring me cards and some of them had little "presents" they made. It was so sweet. They all said one nice thing about me (which because of the crown most said Miss Pupper is a queen) Then we celebrated Sung Min's birthday because I share my birthday with my student. His mom had brought lots of treats, enough for both mine and Marks class. It was fun. About mid day security comes to my room to deliver a HUGE bouquet of flowers...From my mom and dad!!!! So unexpected and wonderful. Then a few minutes later the office staff Jenny, Unna, Hyeji, and JB comes in singing with a cake for me. The staff is so wonderful!
At the end of the day a few of the staff took me out to eat. Mama and papa bear, Gigi, Joy and Chris, Vanessa and Rob, Mark, Karen, Sunghwa, Brie and Jordan made it out. It was really nice. From there some of us walked to Cafe de Moim for a party. Simo, the music teacher for my kids, shares the 15th of october as well. We had a joint party at the cafe with dancing and live music. Almost all of the Chadwick staff showed up and many played instruments and sang at the open Mic. It was so much fun. (I don't have the pictures from this event yet...but I will get them when I can)

Day 2: Saturday (still my birthday because it was the 15th in the US ha ha) Brie took me out to lunch for my favorite Kimchi jigae. Then Joy and I met Hanmie, one of the security staff, for a night out. We ate dinner with Hanmie and Jung, then played pool. Hanmie kept disappearing from the pool place and we couldn't figure out why. They took me next door to the nooribong room and it was all decorated with balloons, candles and a cake....that is where Hanmie had been :) My Korean friends (and joy) celebrated there. It was SO fun, we laughed, danced and sang.

My First CARE PACKAGE!!!

I love you all! This is the best! I'm so excited to look through all the books and the notebooks my mom sent. I got skin stuff and peanut butter haha :) I got Peets Coffee (decaf? Whatever it's Peets!!) There are an array of teaching books! I have a LOT of reading to do. I'm so happy to have them! I got Coffee Creamer!! I Can't wait to have Peets Coffee with Creamer tomorrow! No more of this skim milk thing ha ha.

Best of all I got star shaped glasses and a wonderful card signed by caring people! You are all amazing and you made my week to have this all put together!

(By the way this is titled "First Care Package" in hopes there will be more...because this is fun! :) ha ha)

안녕하세요

For those of you who don't speak Korean that says "annyeonghaseyo" and means hello! I am officially enrolled in Korean language classes. I have had 3 classes so far. it is a college course at the university of Incheon in Songdo. I love it so far. Korean is not an easy language but learning the characters and sounds has already helped me with my teaching.
I can now relate the sounds they use to the sounds we use so they can learn English better. My students are excited to help me learn Korean and think it is funny that I am studying letters and sounds just like them :)

I will keep you posted on how it works out ha ha :)