Lately

I loaded new pictures on my Flikr page. There are some from the DMZ, and other random things here in my life. There are some new things to report, but I have no motivation to write them. I feel that some of my classes are quite mentally draining, and sometimes I come home and don't want to do anything that stimulates my brain. One class in particular has seven 6-year-old boys. They are adorable. However there are 2 in the class that take all my attention and patience that I have stored for the whole day. The last two days I've taught them, I leave the class at the end feeling like the worst teacher in the world, and a bad person. They've driven me to drink. One of them for sure has ADD, and the other, well, he could have ADD also. He speaks to me in only Korean, but he doesn't understand that I don't speak it, but that's not why he might have ADD. The other classes are good, nice students, but very challenging to manage. I have a bully situation in one class, for example.

The last few weeks have been quite busy. Katherine visited, I went to visit her, Christmas shopping, visiting friends, getting ready for Japan. I can't believe we are leaving in 3 days. I also feel sad that I am not with family and friends for the holiday. I did not think it would be this hard. I am glad that Denise and I are taking advantage of the time off, and I definitely feel like I need a holiday. Several people I know will be in Tokyo the same time as I, so it will be so exciting to meet up. One friend is from here, another is Miss Veronica Ebbs-Canavan. Veronica and I worked at the Westin Grand together back in the day. We were the only two female bell staff for the longest time. Should be great.

I had a dream last night that Frank was here. In my dream he ran out of my apartment and down the hallway into Denise's apartment, because he likes to run into other people's houses anyway. I woke up form my dream with my big heavy blanket on my chest, and I thought it was Frank. Instant sadness. I saw a Westie the other week. Its the first one I've seen one in 3 months.

All the dog owners out there, hug your dog for me.