when the rain starts to pour

i'll be home in 2 weeks and 2 days. for 1 week. for lunch today morg, christina and i went to galguksu. its amazing soup--noodles and veggies (galbi pego -- without beef). we ended up eating with jordana. a friend of ours from cali. she just got back from 2 weeks at home. she still has four months here, but she said it was so strange being home so close to the end of her contract. when she woke up this morning she said it felt like it'd all been a dream. and it was really hard to be there, but it was even harder to leave it after just 2 weeks. we'll see how i do after just a week, with less than a month left.

i dont really have a reason for not writing on here in a while. i havent been that busy or anything. just laziness i guess. i feel like im starting to slide into my normal leaving process with people here. i've been getting annoyed or even arguing with people here more.

we just had another song contest on monday. my alligator preschoolers ended up being one of the two classes that won. bobby chose surfin usa for them to sing. they were so good. everyone sang and they even did motions and a bit of dancing. i had chosen aint no mountain high for my bear kids....which they all knew, but they just dont like singing as much. but their motions were great! haha i'm going to miss those kids so much.

today one of my kids told us that his dad was yelling at his mom last night so she started to yell back at him. then she got really mad when he said something so she starting hitting him a lot. then another student piped in with his own story. he was working on his homework the night before. he was reading his storybook when his mom came over and yelled at him because he wasnt working hard. he told her he was trying very hard. so she grabbed his book and threw it at the trash can. some of the stories our kids tell us are heartbreaking. like...earlier this week one of my elementary school students told me that he had fallen at soccer practice and scraped up his arm. then when his mom saw him asleep doing his homework she started smacking his wound until it broke open. can you imagine?? ugh. i wish i could scream at their parents! and then take all my kids... i dont know what i'd do then. but still.

it's definitely monsoon season. its been raining more often...every weekend at least. and today it was storming ALL day. it's not so much fun at this point to not have a car. maybe this is preparing me for when i'll own my own car. mama, i'm so glad i have those rainboots. best gift ever :)