When Koreans say Hola.

Emily likes On the Border!

My apologies to all for being absent from blogging for a significant amount of time. There is a season here that I have never before experienced. It is called grading season. It is a time when all opportunities for any sort of life outside of assessments, rubrics, questions, and comments are nil.
You really do not know if you are coming or going but I think after a good 7 days in a row, I might be done. Now all I have to do is survive conferences this week. Oh boy..the fun never ends.
When we do muster the energy to get together we find things to do like go to the Icheon Ceramic Festival which was neat. It reminded me of Art in the Park a little bit. Of course I parted with some of my hard earned wages there. How could I not for the sake of art and artisans? The weather was nice as was the group of people that went. It is definitely fall here now and the colors change so fast.
Today being Sunday, I spent all day at school working and opted to join some friends in Seoul for dinner. They have an On the Border here now and it tastes a lot like the one at home and it was a really nice change. We weren't the only foreigners in there either which was different for a change.
On the way in the door though we were greeted in Korean, English, and Spanish. So for this tired teacher I was really confused what to say when. Hearing Hola in Korea is not something I was expecting ever. But if the food tastes that good and the company is that nice, you can say hello and goodbye any way that you want! As you can tell, our youngest member enjoyed it as well.
So I will close this blog for now but I will be up and running pretty much daily again. Thanks again to all of you who have gone through this journey with me. So many stories to come, just from the last week alone.