Rain drops are falling on my head...

Hello!
I thought I'd update the blog quickly to let you all know that we are alive and well. Actually "well" only pertains to me at the moment because Andrew has unfortunately caught his first cold here in Asia. He's doing alright though - no need to worry (mom's and dad's!).

The rest of our work week went suprisingly well! I'm starting to get used to the kids and the culture... well slightly anyway. I've started to make some "buddies" in my classes and I must say it's nice to have some allies! This one little girl I teach named "Kally" brings me doughnuts or cookies every day - such a cutie. On the other hand, I've made a few enemies as well. Andrew caught me telling this one boy ("Terrence") on Friday that if he continued to punch his friend and throw gobs of fun-tac at the girls that I was going to call his mother. If the kid only knew that I can't speak a stick of Korean, so calling his mother will never happen! Oh well, the fear tactic seems to be working quite well on him anyway.

You all may find it very funny and surprising that Andrew thinks he's found his "niche" teaching in Korea. He loves it! I had thought before coming here that I was going to end up liking the job much more than Andrew did. But in all honesty, I think he's enjoying it more than me. Needless to say, I may have to drag him kicking and screaming home at the end of this year. Time will tell anyway!

We didn't end up doing too much this weekend - partly due to the rainy weather (Korea got a typhoon yesterday!) and partly due to Andrew getting sick. We did, however, go downtown for the afternoon yesterday. It's quite scary leaving our little district not knowing any Korean. Me being the worrier I am, always wonders "what happens if we need help?!." I need to get over this paranoia I think since we both want to venture into Seoul in the next couple of weeks. Downtown Daejeon was pretty quiet actually, nothing like what we saw of Seoul. We went to a few department stores and into a few malls.

I had sort of a funny experience the other day in one of the malls in our district (about a 2 minute walk from our apartment). I was looking at a pair of jeans and a sales lady came up and started talking to me in Korean. Then she sort of did the "once-over" and grabbed the biggest size on the rack! I must say that even though Andrew and I are pretty large here - we definately won't fit the largest size! Anyway, that was pretty funny for both of us. We were joking that maybe I should just buy 2 pairs and get them sown together and hopefully that'll fit. Oh, funny stuff.

Anyway, I should get back and tend to the "sickie." We're going out with our director for supper tonight.

Hope all is well with all of you!

Love, Tara