Procrastination/Thanksgiving

Well, my final day of the semester was officially yesterday! So no more teaching, but prep work for the winter classes will begin. I'm definitely looking forward to the change in pace at least for a week or so. But the winter classes should be fun too! We're only teaching 2 students each for 3 hours a day for 3 weeks. Since they're small classes and 3 hours long, that gives us plenty of time to do fun things like field trips...

Last week, I was teaching about procrastination (the topic of the day was "stress" and they were listing off reasons for why people are stressed), and I realized how much of a procrastinator I am with writing on this blog...I have something interesting to share but then either get tied down with work or think, "Oh, I can do it later" :) So, the procrastination stops right now. For today at least.

A week before Thanksgiving, a Korean Bible teacher invited us to his home for a traditional "Thanksgiving dinner". Turkey is nowhere to be found in Korea, so I was so happy that we'd have the opportunity to share at least that one thing together. And it was delicious. There ended up being 2 Korean professors, and one of the professors wives (she did the cooking for us). They all spoke really great English, and it was a delicious way to start the Thanksgiving holiday!

Afterwards, we went to the Chung-gae-cheon, which is a stream that runs through the middle of downtown Seoul. Every year about this time they have a Lantern Festival that runs for a week or two, and then they decorate it for Christmas with other beautiful lights. Well, at the time that we went, it was the last day of the Lantern Festival. So there were soooo many people! But it was beautiful.