V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N-!-!

Hello, hello! This is officially our second weekend in our new apartment. The big difference is now its clean :)

We have one week of work under our belt and two things have struck us. One... how quickly the time is going by here. It's hard to believe that we've been in Seoul for over three weeks now. And two... how much work it is. The kids are great, some of the teachers are great, but the workload and the learning curve is definately taking its toll. I know that with time we will become more efficient, which will make our lives much easier, but the time being... its hard work. Luckily both Paul and I are used to working hard, so we are able to stay pretty positive while we are at school.

Strangely enough we are having our first week of vacation this week. SLP (our school) closes its doors for two full weeks in the year. Once in the summer (starting July 31st) and once in December for Christmas. So even though we don't really need a vacation right now, its nice that we are able to spend it together. We have yet to receive our first paycheque so our one week's holidays will be pretty low key and cheap. Not to mention, if you want a flight out of Korea you have to book months in advance because they only have three or so airlines that fly out of Korea so flights book up really quickly. So for this weeek we are thinking of touring around Seoul with the other new teacher Andrea (she's from Halifax). She arrived one week after we did and she won't have anything to do for a whole week, so we thought we would spend some time together.

For the winter vacation we are thinking about Cambodia, so I guess we better get booking. There is also a period of 6 or 7 days in October in which the school is closed (some sort of national holiday I think), so we might book something for that week as well. It's hard to think about that kind of stuff when you are still trying to figure out simple things like where do I put my garbage bags? or where is the nearest grocery store? etc. etc.

Well that's about it for now. We will write more about our adventures in Seoul this week. Take care everyone and hopefully we'll see you on MSN!