Happy Halloween and Welcome Newbie

Oct 26 - Nov 1
Well here we go again.
This week was as crazy a week as I have had yet I think. Between running back and forth to the elementary school, trying to get through my grading, thinking about what I'm going to do with all my stuff, and getting a new arrival at our school; I was stretched a little thin.
This week was put me at less than 15 teaching days left and left me feeling kind of weird, because as much as I am looking forward to my upcoming vacation, I am going to miss my kids and some parts of my job. Either way, it is an inevitability and with that comes my replacement. She, named June, a Korean-American from California, showed up on Wednesday a full two weeks before I leave. This is incredibly unusual, because replacement teachers usually show up under one week before they have to start teaching. In June's case, it is because of the H1N1 policy that was lifted before she came here, which meant she didn't have to spend time in quarantine. Her appearance threw us off because we were not ready for here and had not prepared all the things we had wanted to before she got here. None the less we took her in as we were took in, maybe even better, and started slowly introducing her to the job and the company. I think she will be just fine.
The rest of the week was not that happening, we waited for Friday and payday before doing much with ourselves. Once Friday came around, Margaret and I went to a costume shop to grab something to wear for Halloween at school. Though none of the kids dressed up because it isn't a big deal around here, they loved seeing us dressed up and with candy in hand. At the elementary school I got the kids to power though the work and then we made Halloween masks out of paper plates and other craft materials for fun. They absolutely loved it but had a hard time understanding the relationship between glue needing to try and being able to pick our mask up. Repeatedly they would place the stuff on the paper plate and pick it up to show me, only to have it fall off. We all laughed and had a great time.
After work on Friday, I took it easy and hung out with a few people from the elementary school at Zenia's. Though I didn't drink much, I stayed up late and was tired Saturday when I had to tutor. After tutoring I came home and relaxed for the afternoon before gong out.
Saturday night, even though it was Halloween, we went to Apgujong to have a going away party for Gina, Junk's girlfriend, who is going to study in Australia for the next year. We hopped across a couple of our favorite places and had a great time, but eventually Jameson and I split off and went to Monkey Beach to see some people in costumes and hear some loud music. We left Apgujong around 4 am and I got to bed some time after 6.
Getting to sleep so late meant that I woke up late for the brunch plans I had. I was suppose to go to a Korean coworkers house with Margaret for 12, but never woke up until 11:30. Luckily when I called Margaret she was just getting up too, so we were both late. We showed up for lunch an hour late, which worked out great because Katie and her new husband Yong-Hyawg were running late too. We had some pasta and pizza, and drank some super strong liqueur from their honeymoon to Italy, after which we went and walked around a park for a bit.
After the park, I went to meet Jameson, Kate, and Dave for dinner and trivia. Unfortunately is was cancelled and we were 'forced' to sit around and drink instead. Eventually we had enough talking and headed out on the subway so that we could all get home to rest up for the coming week.