Hey

I'm back. For how long remains to be seen. :) Not sure who stops by anymore, considering that I don't! I didn't realize it had been quite so long.....

I have a million and one pictures, but neither the time nor the patience today. So, long story short....I am not renewing at my school. Aaron and I want a contract together and Samyook is definitely NOT the place for that, although they asked me if he would be interested in joining the staff. He most certainly is not. It was not a bad place to work when I started, but it has become an 'us' vs. "them" type of place.

It got really bad after some of the foreigners made plans, even buying tickets (out of the country, mind you) for the scheduled eleven-day vacation. Well, leave to the school to cancel two days in the middle, expecting everyone to cancel all plans-without complaint. Suffice it to say, they had a fight on their hands, and they have made working conditions more difficult each at least monthly.

I am happy to leave, and one teacher has already left (Meredith :( That sucked) Two others will be leaving this summer as well, one other choosing to leave (without problems, with an LOR) during the contract.

I am very much looking forward to (and a little apprehensive about) an extended vacation Aaron and I have planned that will include Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam, and Australia. More to come.....but who knows when. ;)