my students

I've been spending a fair bit of time with my students outside of school, and I am about to do more. In the past 2 weeks, I have had half my class over for egg-painitng which was great fun, went to the park a couple of times with some, and had easter dinner (as you know) with one of the families.

Oddly enough, outside the classrooom, I dont feel that much older than them. Is that strange? Am I trying to hold on to my youth? At 37 I shock myself regularly at the number of years I have accumulated and how little material wealth I have to show for it. Arent I supposed to be a home-owner, business-owner, well on my path to a solid career in some serious and stressful field, with a family and kids in towe? Guess not, since I have none of the above! My only dependant is a furry stinky four legged pooch who gives me most of what I need when my love isnt around.

This feeling of settling down is really starting to effect my every decision, and the timing too. One more year outside the country may not seem like much but I want to go home NOW. Not next year, not even next month. I actually want to go home right now!! But I can't. 8 weeks isnt an impossible wait. I have lasted this long after all, but even a few months in limbo makes me crazy at the thought of it.

Going back to the kids here though, what I was meaning to say was that I finally realize the difference between my kids here and Korea is that I want to spend time with them outside the class. Their thinking, imagination, humor and social skills seems have developed in more or less the same route as mine did at their age. In Korea I didnt see much similarity. Asian culture sure is alien to me. They seemed on a different plane to me all together. I guess it just wasnt the place for me, though if an easy well paying job came up, I sure wouldnt turn it down.

So it's Friday again and we have a staff meeting. **GRIN**

I got three flights from my travel agent and all have stop overs. Do I go with the shortest stop-over to make Oscars life easier eventhough its with the least reliable airline, or do I go Lufthansa and make him wait 5 hours in a lay-over? I don't see why I couldnt just take him into the cabin with me. He would just sleep on my lap anyway! I hate doing this. I really do. This is the last time!

Amazing how much noise 5 females can make. All the teachers are behind me and they all feel the need to scream at each other at close range. WHY??????

I'm crusty today!