I cannot begin to let you all know what a rediculous amount of things I've learned, literally in the last five days. After our sketchy, back alley drop off late monday night, it has certainly been a wild ride. I continue thinking of how people can possibly get by being completely illiterate, well, that's kind of what's happening now. There are signs all over the place that people completely understand and skim through without a thought, and it looks like a bunch of chicken scratching to Cass and I. It is a strange concept that you really cant relate to without putting yourself in that situation. Apperently, we wasted no time immersing ourselves in this, since we both started teaching the very next morning. I first had to have coffee (kopee) with the principal, my first ... read more

Jackpot, the package we were expecting arrived. Funny, that both Cass and I were both out of town, she at a conference in Helena, and I had to (yup... had to) check out the Mt. Helena's ridge trail on my bike. I got back early to sign for it at the post office. It definitely didn't create a sense of calming for either one of us, since it really only contained what we sent, with a bit more korean writing on it. Interesting, but a few emails later, we found out that is all we needed to take to Seattle and get our Visas. Since Cass is still working full time, I'm in charge of many of the smaller little details that we need to get done before we take off. I definitely had my first ... read more