Charpie's Travels

For Valentine's Day, my fabulous parents sent me a box of chocolate-covered potato chips. Someone brought me the package during class (my mail is sent to work), and my pre-kinders were beyond excited about it. Grace ran around shaking the box as hard as she possibly could. I promised them that, if they finished their work quickly, we'd open my mail. Maybe this just shows how little I know about Korean kids, but I really expected them to be grossed out by potato chips dipped in chocolate. Even after they begged to try them, I still expected someone to spit out their chip. Not the case. The first word they uttered after tasting the chips was "delicious!" I walked into class after a three-day weekend and my kids were still bitter that I hadn't given them each more than one chip. "Teacher, you are not good," Diana announced. "You do not share your chips." I promised to bring these kids a treat for some class-wide accomplishment. I made the

Here's another album two months late. I spent the day with Amy around where she lives.  Suraksan

Now that we've even passed the Lunar New Year, I noticed that I uploaded a December 31 album ... and then never did anything with it. These aren't by any means amazing photos, and they don't necessarily have much to do with the new year. They are, at least, proof that I was in Seoul when 2009 ran out and 2010 began.  New Years Eve