Apologies

Hola mis amigos,

I'm sorry for not getting to emails as fast as I should have been. A particularly heartfelt "I'm sorry, please don't call the National Guard (they couldn't get here anyway)" to my mom, as I've been out of contact for the last few days. I've had very limited access to emails, as only one of my addresses was functional from school. Facebook and my aol.com address were not, and as such I had 98 emails to review after not getting to it until this evening. Bloody joy.

I've got just a minute to update, as my time allotment is running low here at the PC-Bang (which translates to PC-room...how great). Things are getting better by the day, and I just got my ARC - Alien Registration Card (what a welcoming name!), so I'll be able to set up tv, internet, and phone all relatively soon.

I met a number of people who live near me that are AWESOME. One fella in particular is a Scotsman named Stephen. We were trading drinks and regaling ourselves of stories...and let me tell you: the Scottish can do both quite well. He may have been 5'8 and 140lbs, but he had my oversized Irish-American arse running for my money. Some other great people were a married couple from Portland and a girl named Amanda...which I think brings the total to 12 of Amandas that I know. But the more the merrier! Went out to dinner with all of them and we had a blast.

The kids still love me, and I'm getting to set up my own lessons and projects and everything. I've got a lot of freedom in this job IF I want to use it, and considering how boring things are from 2pm-430pm (prep time...in addition to all of Wednesday, which is basically a prep day), I intend to make it funky and creative. They'll be saying "Who Loves Kitty?" while wearing "Hello Kitty". And all the girls wear hello kitty, as do a number of the boys...

But they're not gay; just Korean.