Um... Kevin Gerke is stinkin' cute as a teacher, and every coworker and student I have here has affirmed this. Also, Gwangju is beautiful.

What else?.... Well, our boss treated all the teachers to a delicious and unreasonably huge lunch today- they got us good and full, then served a bunch of other courses. I adore our direct boss, Me Yin, and her boss seems cool, and reminds me of dear Mrs. Gisela back home in St. Franny.

My students are awesome. They are bright, imaginative, studious, and funny. Once a week they have speaking practice and present a short essay they've written on a given topic: Today's presentations were on Something Ugly. Sure, plenty of students talked about jellyfish, mud, poo-poo flies, spiders, etc... but a couple of these guys pulled out deep issues, like nuclear weapons, fighting, money and murderers. They amaze me in new ways each class.

And now, it is officially the weekend! I haven't had that to be excited about since I was in high school myself. But here we are- two full days to play! YEA!!!