Since my last post in November a few things have happened. My British roomate, Josephine, left Korea and moved back home. Right at that time my job found an open apartment right above Heather's apartment so I decided to move....again. This time though I was able to get two of my Korean guy friends (one has a car) to help me out. They were amazing and pretty much moved all of my stuff for me. It was my easiest move yet.
The apartment is amazing! It's one big room with a kitchen at one end, my bed at the other, a bathroom, and a closet for doing laundry. It is the perfect sized place for a single person. So I have been enjoying having my own time and space to do whatever I want. I wake up in the morning, drink my green tea and do some yoga. Then when I come home from work in the evening I blast my music and do art, or clean, or watch movies, or cook. It's wonderful! I may never live with a roomate again! I also now live within walking distance from school so it's nice to not have the hour commute on the subway.
My school is moving in January to Jamsil, a nice more busy and populated area of Seoul than where the school is located now. It will only be a short bus ride away from my apartment so that isn't too bad. I just received my new work schedule yesterday though. It changed drastically!! I came here on a contract saying I would work 2pm-8 or 9pm. I now currently work about 1pm-8pm. My new schedule though, now includes kindergarden so I will work 11am-6 or 7pm. It's not too bad of a schedule because I have lots of breaks, but it will take some getting used to. I will also have my own kindergarden class now called 'Kangaroo' class. That will be interesting because they will only be 5-6 years old and I'll have to have a lot more energy with them. I will also have them everyday. My classes now, are elementary to middle school students and I only have them once to three times a week. I am very curious to see how I will like teaching kindergarden everyday. I love the little kids, but sometimes they are just too wild for me.
This next week at school is a short week. We work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (Christmas Eve) and then we have about 10 days off for Winter vacation. yay! Heather and I will be flying out of Seoul of Christmas morning first to Vietnam for a day and then to Thailand for the rest of our time. We have a few different things planed out for Thailand so it should be an amazing time. I just can't believe that it's almost Christmas! This year has flown by faster than any other year that I can remember. Now it's Christmas time and it doesn't even feel like it. I guess it won't feel like Christmas at all this year because I won't be with family and Heather and I will be traveling. Heather is my family here though and we have a little Christmas Eve planned together, so that should be nice. :) Then we'll be off on our adventure!
Well Happy Holidays to all the friends and family who are reading this. I miss you guys and all the fun festivities that go on during this season. Drink some eggnog for me, open your presents, sing your carols, enjoy your Christmas dinner and know that I am thinking of you all. :)
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