Recent Events... aka the Californians have arrived...

We've had a good weekend, starting with the trip to Eumseong with Justin and Kevin, meeting the Californians and teaching them about ACE camp. We've had so much fun! Georgette is our bubbly friend who has jumped in with two feet. She is such a sweetheart and compassionate friend-- already! Mary is a sensitive soul who always enjoys sharing a laugh with us about the silly things that go on! Bobbie is Mary's daughter, she's 18, but has fit right in with our "out of school and not quite over the hill crowd" (that was for Charles!). I have really enjoyed getting to know them.

Here is a glimpse of our life in the dorms:

This is Paige and Vera stalking our friends on facebook while they sleep. :)

On Sunday, we got to go to Mungyeong, the new GVCS campus. It was a fun bus trip, which I really appreciated as a chance to see more of Korea. Between my bus trip with Vera and our trip on Sunday, I have seen more of Korea then I imagined I would in 2 weeks.

We got to have a pizza party with GVCS' founder, Pastor Nam. Here are some pictures of our pizza party:

TA Christina and I after church at Mungyeong.

Grace Academy respresent! :) My cute student....

My roommate Joy and I with our office manager, Kevin, & our boss, Esther.

This week of class has been good, everyone is used to each other and our routines are a little more set. Our students are showing the signs of their weariness. Today in G-Class (the language babies), Grace was trying to tell me about something but she was soooooooo tired that her eyes were crossing behind her glasses and her lids were falling and fluttering. It was so distracting that I can't even remember what she was trying to tell me!

Yesterday was midterms. Everyone was crying and stressing... it was... insane. I felt stressed and I was GIVING the test! I feel like I am slowly turning into Mrs. Maxwell, my high school Latin teacher, with her pacing and anxiety before OUR exams. Everyone did well, so it was worth it.

If you haven't heard my melodramatic moaning, my DELL died. It was a rough night. I turned it on, everything was fine then all of a sudden..... "PBR...done." It was sad. I immediately FREAKED. Charles was laughing, Joy was trying to shout and understand what I was bursting into sobs about. I pulled out the battery, restarted in twice... in a desperate attempt to do SOMETHING, I started blowing light into the vents to try to get dust out... thinking maybe Dell's just overheated! So then Charles starts laughing because he thinks I'm trying to give Dell CPR (even I'm not that stupid). So then we both start pleading with God....

"He's too young..."

"I didn't get to say good-bye"

"It was so sudden..."

"There was nothing you could've done..."

"Just one more month...."

It was tragically melodramatic. Charles' cpr... trying to pump life back into Dell... was not productive and just a little heartless to mock a mourning woman. :(

I hope your summers are providing lots of laughs and many adventures...

That's my crazy Korean adventure so far!