New Location!

The Hans we were employed by has sadly closed...


but don't worry they opened back up two blocks away. The new location is beautiful, complete with a new computer lab and other awesome amenities. The school is also now located in the same building as its sister school that houses all the middle school students. The middle school is on the same floor in our building. Our director bought out the entire floor of the building. On of the perks is that they no longer have rent. They actually own the location. The classes are bigger and the students seem happier (ok well maybe not entirely true about the about the students...)


I want to include some pictures.







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New location- like I need to move again

Our school is moving. Well down the street anyways. We are moving to combine with the middle school campus. It actually works out in our favor. We will have a shorter walk to work and it is closer to restaurants if we want to step out for one of our breaks and run to grab some food. We will be just around the corner from MacDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, and Holly's Coffee. The only thing that stinks is that we have to come in on Sunday afternoon and move our things to the new campus. It is really going to throw off our napping streak. Sometimes I swear Jack and I are like children. We actually have a napping schedule. haha. Sundays are the only day of the week that we dont sleep in. We have to be up SO early. (and by early I mean nine. haha) Normally we get out of bed at the crack of noon.

This week the move is on. I think the thing that is craziest is that Jack and I will no longer have a office. Instead we will share a classroom. The only thing that is kind of weird about that is that there are cameras in all the classrooms. We don't currently have one in our office so during our breaks we watch tv online. :) I guess I will just have to angle my mac away from the camera because I don't think I can part with watching Lost and the Office when they come online. The new school is awesome though. They bought out the rest of the second floor in our building so we will have a lot of space and new equipment. It is of little cost when you consider that our boss currently owns twenty different hagwons (private schools). We only found that out this week. Let's just say we discovered he is doing well. haha For now we will pack our desk and make sure the trash has been emptied while we head out to better things.

School birthday fun

As if all the crazy birthday enjoyment during my weekend wasn't enough i was met by the teachers at our school on Tuesday (Monday was a holiday) with a beautiful birthday cake and singing. I think the best part of the day occured when I was greeted by one of my classes with them singing happy birthday (in English I might add). They were so cute, but that wasn't the best part. Later on in the lesson it came to my attention one of the boys had forgotten his book. It is a real offense hereso I started to get on his case. In the midst of my stern talking the whole class simultaneously busted out with the last line of the song: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!" It was such a clever usage of the song I decide to let it slip this time that he had forgotten his book. Unfortunately, the behavior rubbed off on Jack after I told him the story. Over the last week if he had committed any offense, he just randomly breaks out into the birthday song. I assured him it only worked if he was an adorable eight year old Korean but still he persists. I have to admire his commitment. ha ha Here are a few pictures. Check out the rest on our gallery. You can find the link on the side of this page.

Test week

How I love it. This week we are giving the students monthly tests. It os my favorite and least favorite week of the month. The classes fly by and all I do is sit and write in my journal or play on the computer. If you haven;t guessed already, I am writing this as I am sitting in class. It is so nice. Th epart tthat is the least favorite is at the end of the week, I must turn in monthly report cards. It sucks and I hate it. haha. Oh well. SO far so good. This week I have actually been able to finish up each classes report cards while still in their class. I graded their papers quickly and recorded the grades as fast as possible. I am up to date on all classes. It is awesome. :) I am trying really hard because this weekend Jack and I are planning to go to Seoul. We are leaving Sunday and coming back on Tuesday morning.

We have Monday off for 3.1절 (Samiljeol)- Independence Day, March 1
On this date in 1919, Koreans declared their independence from Japan. The fight for independence was a struggle to preserve the Korean way of life. During the occupation Koreans were forced to give up their Korean names, their language and their food, so other ways to commenorate this day might include cooking a Korean meal or learning a new phrase or Korean song. We thought what better way to celebrate Korea than to visit its capital city and visit some of it's most important land marks.

We will hopefully be visiting the palace as well as the main temple in Seoul. It is a Buddhist temple where foreign Kings/Emperors went to worship. I am not sure if this will be weird or not, but it worth a try. We though about visiting a Korean folk village outside of the city, but we decided we would go at a later date with our friend Seona in Daejon. I am really excited. We are going to celebrate the holiday as well as my 25th birthday. :)

Poop Face

So today I had a student call me poop face. I was cracking up at his comment which of course made him mad but he was being super disrespectful despite his inadequacy to come up with a decent cut down. I started to get on to him and his Korean teacher came to the door. He started crying (apparently I can look at a student a certain way and they cry) and then I looked like the jerk. SO now I was called a poop face and actually temporarily felt like a poop face.

I am doing better now. He deserved it, but crying kids have a way of getting sympathy. I just need to be more of a hard ass.

The Hans

Here are a few of the recent pictures from our school. Most of them are from my (CRystal's) classes and a few are just of the school itself. :)


All the classrooms are named after American and European influential universities.













One of my brightest students!



Here is a quick video of one of my classes reading their story book.





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