So, as it stand now, Lily will most certainly be hired and we can expect her to start as soon as we get her diploma back and send her to Japan for a few hours. After that she will be ready to begin, and we are hopeful that this will be sometime next week. In the meantime she is following me around and learning how to teach English to children which is far different, as she noted, from teaching children who already speak English.

In the meantime she has moved into my apartment and we are just like a pair of college girlfriends which is rather pleasant and really allot of fun. We have so much in common it's almost silly. Not only did we both spend a great deal of time studying the history of women and women's sexuality, but we have also read many of the same philosopher's, lots of the same fiction, and she's a fan of NPR and misses it as much as I do. Right this minute I’m listening to Morning Edition at 5:00 p.m. because I miss Bob Edwards, isn't that silly.

Aside from all this things are going well, as everyone is adjusting to the very sudden departure of Jenny. There was some shifting to cover the little kid class she had because no one but Sara really enjoys teaching the wee ones. It's tough to teach really young children English, especially if their writing ability is minimal. You are teaching them to write in a way that is totally foreign to the writing they see all the time.

As of this writing, I've had no more new weird Korea things happen, and aside from finding myself a sort of impromptu guide for Lily, have been fairly low key. Just wanted to let everyone know what was up. There should be a fairly interesting happening next weekend, which is the big Korean Thanksgiving Holiday that apparently has traffic jams rivaling only Memorial or Labor day in the states, and potentially worse as all Koreans are expected to return to their ancestral home to celebrate. I shall let you know.