Our Grand Adventure: One semester down, one to go!

Monday morning after our vacation we were nose-to-the-grindstone! Classes started up again and we started getting back into the routine of things. We all rotated classes so we all have new students this semester. Our new schedules:

Jacob:
Seongnam 1st and 2nd grade
Seongnam Intermediate (3rd and 4th grade)
Elves (intermediate level after school class)
Writing club (advanced level writing class)
Adult Intermediate and Advanced levels

Nikki:
Seongnam 1st and 2nd grade
Seongnam Advanced (5th and 6th grade)
Hobbits (beginner level after school class)
Phonics (VERY beginner level after school class)
Adult Beginner and Intermediate levels

We finished the first full month of full-time teaching schedules when we got a four-day break for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving), we got the weekend, Monday, and Tuesday to "celebrate with family" :(.

We spent our holiday hanging out at home. Apparently tickets to fly to nearby countries were sold out months in advance, and bus tickets to other parts of the country were also sold out. Instead of trying to go somewhere, we were going to take the opportunity to organize what we wanted to sell, throw away, and take home with us for our impending departure. Somehow, that didn't get started... or even thought about.

All weekend we did the usual go to a coffee shop and read, drink coffee, watch Netflix. Monday morning bright and early we went to Everland, Korea's knock-off Disneyland!

We arrived right as the park was opening and it was beautiful. Entrance tickets were much, much cheaper than Disneyland tickets, and the park was even doing a special for foreigners, 50% off! In hindsight, I'm really glad they were discounted because I would have been really disappointed with the experience had I paid full price.

The park is set up exactly like a Disney park with different "lands", Everland characters, foods from around the world, and even similar trash cans... weird I know. However, the rides the park had to offer were nowhere near Disney caliber, the ride offering was vaguely reminiscent of a county fair...