right, a few facts to update y'all.

A fringe/bangs are not easy to maintain if you have curly hair and are not disposed towards grooming endlessly. I had to buy a hairdryer and hair stuff to keep it looking good. blurgh.

I am purchasing a hedgehog tomorrow. It will be my pet/friend/family member. I am unbelievably excited about it! I learnt the Korean word for hedgehog so I could tell all my students. Actually, let me back track a moment. We have been learning about calendars, birthdays,and 'before and after' this week in my one pre-school class. So the one activity was writing down your birthday and everyone else's in the class and then saying what you wanted for your birthday. Now the teacher is expected to participate in these sessions and so I duly wrote my birthday on the board and when asked what I would like for my birthday I said a hedgehog. well. I just laughed and laughed. Jeong Min (pronounced Jong Min) gave me this baleful look and just said: I can't get you a hedgehog. It was the sweetest thing and so touching. I said she didnt have to I was going to get it myself, but I would really like a pen or something else small.Which made her happy again.

So there it is. As soon as it is all settled in my apartment i will begin photo taking and filming and will post them so you can all see the wonderfulness that is a hedgehog.

Today my one student, pre-school again, Eun Gyeol (this is a tricky one, and I still say it wrong sometimes, but it goes something like this: Oon Gi-ol), looked at me so strangely today when I was gleefully bouncing up and down over receiving a letter from Sarah from when she was in Vietnam (random aside, so it took about a month for that letter to get here, but it only takes 2 weeks for things from home to get here, and Vietnam is in Asia - confirm that that is weird.). Eun Gyoel duly asked me who the letter was from and I told her it was from a friend in South Africa. Then she said, 'teacher why?', and I said because she misses me. This brought about a look of utter confusion on her face and then she said, "But teacher, you go South Africa-Korea, Korea-South Africa (she repeated this many times with full body actions in tow)"...now it was my turn to be confused, and I said "Ummmm, no. I stay in Korea."

AMAZEMENT. JAW DROP.

She was like "You Korea live?!"

"Yes"

"Haa. Really?"

"Yes"

"You no go home everyday?"

"No silly"

stunned silence.

"All teachers?"

"Yes"

disbelieving look. and then: "Teachers all live same?"

which I deciphered as: so all the teachers live together?

"No"

Well this just about rocked her little 7 year old world. It was hilarious and lovely all at once.

Otherwise things are moving ahead fairly smoothly. Had a few hiccups, but feeling good again.

love and miss you all. Please send news.