Let's make a list of things we have now that we did not have one week ago:

1. Internet at our apartment
2. A moment to catch our breaths
3. COFFEE. BEANS.

Thanks to these new-found luxuries, I can now update this oh-so-cleverly titled blog (thanks, Nick Bhawk) for those of you who kindly care about our little lives in Yangyang. And yes, I realize that this partially implies I am incapacitated without coffee. I accept this implication.

We are teaching at five elementary schools. Five. Here is how that conversation went down on our first day in Yangyang:

Co-teacher: "something something something something your other schools something something something"
Me: "Excuse me? Other schools?"
Co-teacher: "Yes, you are teaching at five schools. A different school every day."
Me, externally: "Oh"
Me, internally: "HAFDAFIDOFFKDSAFAJA"

But actually it's been really fantastic. "HFADASDJFSAJSA but then it was actually fantastic" has been my reaction to many things in Korea, actually. Including but not limited to: Squiggly food, all-Korean menus, non-English-speaking kindergartners, etc). All of our schools are tiny and magical and have live plants lining the hallways. And they are colorful. So colorful. (The schools, not the plants.) I'm pretty sure our Tuesday school has somewhere in its building contract: "Loud primary colors only." Pictures forthcoming.

I am teaching 3rd and 5th grade, and Trevor is teaching 4th and 6th. Once a week, I also have a kindergarten class and Trevor a 1st grade class.

My largest class has 15 students, and Trevor's is somewhere thereabouts. Most of them are smaller, however. At my Friday school, I have two one-student classes, each about 80 minutes.

Apartment-wise, things could not be better. When I walked in for the first time, I could not believe the size of the main room. Then, when I kept discovering more and more rooms, I began to wonder if I was on some reality TV show where you don't know if you're being filmed.

The area is also fantastic. Moving to a beach town at the end of summer is quite a tease, but one can't really complain when nestled between mountains and the sea.

Anyways, you can either thank or blame my medium roast coffee beans for this update. They keep me going. Sorry to keep bringing them up, but they are sitting so cutely over there on the kitchen counter in their shiny bag.

Well, I have a tender sister to skype right now, so stories will have to wait for later.