End of the semester

WOW~ we're already nearing the end of the semester! I know I've done a terrible job at posting about my first year teaching here in Korea....but, I'm determined that I will be more intentional about updating!

This past weekend, I spent 12 straight hours making final exams for my Chemistry and Biology classes. I didn't anticipate that it would take me so long to make the exams, but it did--maybe it was because each of my exams have a multiple choice section and short answer part. Anyways, because of that, I got really bad sleep over the weekend, which is when I usually try to catch up on sleep. I kept dreaming about which types of questions I should include in the final...so glad that's over. The point of all this is that my lack of sleep has snowballed all throughout this week. Every night, I got such little sleep that I finally crashed yesterday after school and took a LONG LONG nap from 5-10pm. It was only when my mom called me that it woke me up from dream-land. BIG MISTAKE...because I slept so much in the afternoon, I ended up not being able to fall back asleep and finally knocked out around 3am...so now, I'm tired again...and the cycle continues.

Whatever. Back to school life...I'm really happy that it's almost the end of the semester. All that's really left is for my students to take their finals, finish up some end-of-semester stuff...and then summer break! I'm going to the States for 2 weeks--1 week in Philly and another in North Carolina for vacation with the family! I'm really excited because we've booked a beach house, which means a full week of sun, rest, and relaxation! Something to definitely look forward to--especially since we've now hit 장마 (rainy) season in Korea..and it's humid and rainy and gross. Apparently it's supposed to rain continually until next Monday...good grief!

Here's a pic of some of my Chem students and lab assistant back when we did a flame test lab!