Friday Night Out

First time in a car in awhile and a few of us went to Bundang for dinner. It is probably 15 or 20 minutes from Suwon. Had first real experience with Thai food which was good. Nothing to spicy for this Idaho kid though! Then we went to a shop called I Love Cookie which has just a menagerie of American food and items. It is funny how you get so excited to see stuff that normally we would just walk right past every other day of the week. Sometimes when you see stuff like that you just buy it. Even if it is expensive it is a taste from home. Something familiar in an unfamiliar world.
Also received a care package with Symphony chocolate from home. How special that was and how fun it was to share some with new friends. Especially the Korean assistants. They have been so amazingly helpful to me throughout the move and transition so to share a little something from home was neat. I told them it was chocolate from home and they said "Ah Hershey." I said yes but a special kind. They seemed to like it and I was treated to a piece of dark chocolate one of them had in their desk. I think we are all going to get along just fine with the help of chocolate.
Today was a busy day full of work at school. Not many meetings but a lot of time pouring over the schedule and trying to figure out what will happen on the first day of school. Nothing about this is normal to me. Not in a bad sense, just not at all normal.
Went through a lot of instruments. I now understand really well what moisture can do to instruments. I also am again amazed and so thankful to be here and work with the things I have. I appreciate them so much. I just hold my breath at times thinking it will all be taken away in budget cuts and school closures.
Tomorrow will be Saturday here but most of us will be in the classrooms getting ready. It is hard to believe that school is starting on Monday. There is a will and there is a way for all of this to happen. I just don't know all of it yet. Maybe it will be better when I have kids in the classroom. Hmm...I wonder.