All I want for christmas is you!

So, we have started some holiday lessons in som of my classes. In general this is adding to the confusion about the holiday season for me. It seems like christmas time in my apartment because I have my super cool tree. And at big shopping places they have some christmas stuff, but it's been warmish and raining sometimes, there's no snow and christmas music isn't blasting while you shop. Besides that my christmas shopping is done. It just needs to be sent (as has been the case for a while now, so if your christmas stuf is late, blame me and the fact the post office isn't open saturday or sunday. And the fact I don't know where it is, or how to speak korean)

Anyway, I'm all excited for holidays while I'm teaching about it and then whn I get home, but when I'm everywhere else I feel like it's september and I'm being stupid.

diferent subject- all is not happy in the land of south korea. Winter Break is coming up and because our contracts were very fuzzy (ie have no mention at all) on this matter there is choas trying to get everyone in line. The problem started when everyone was getting told different and the people who had really bad deal were angry. Well, we asked for clarification on amount of working time and extra pay for class teaching and got an answer back that pretty much gave everyone the senario the people who had it worst were complaining about.

Me? My co-teachers have flouted the directives from above, pending approval from the Principle and vice-P. The korean education office wanted us to come in for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and sit... despite the fact no one else would really be there and we wouldn't have any class.

As long as everything goes as is set now, I will have free from Dec 28- Feb 14 (happy b-day Mara!)

I'm going to China for a few weeks until Jan 15 or 16, so if you really want to visit during that month would be a good time! parts of my fam might be viditing me at some point in there too.

time for lunch. Mara- write more!