Wow it's been a while

So sorry for those who read this. I have been busy because of the end of volleyball season and then parent teacher conferences. This schedule doesn't get any easier. I will be unbelievably busy starting this coming up Friday. That is our family gathering. There are three school like ours in Korea and all the teachers and staff will get together on Fri. I'm excited because I have the best p.e. area out of all three and am anxious to show it off. John, our principal, is also excited because he is really happy with the way that it turned out. But as nice as it is going to be to see everyone, he has also put me in charge of running a volleyball tournament in the afternoon up on our soccer field. Don't get me wrong I am so ready to play some volleyball, but I would just rather play it than run it. Just last Tuesday, the teacher got to play the students. Well let's not say play, it was more of a "let's stand there and pray that the ball doesn't come to me". Paul (our art teacher), Emily (our English teacher), and myself were pretty much the only ones that had even played the game before. Our secretary at the school (the principals wife) and our first grade teacher, decided to change the plan for the games five minutes before the game. The plan was to play the guy teachers against the boys volleyball team and then the female teachers against the girls volleyball team. Well that didn't make the few female teachers happy. They wanted to be a part of the guys game...the problem was that NONE OF THEM COULD PLAY. And I don't just mean oh look they are holding their hands wrong, I'm saying "Oh look, a net". Then they wanted to rotate in after every side-out. Well this would leave five or possibly six players on the court who were lucky to find the ball if it hit them in the face. So what that means is that the ONLY time that they would rotate out was if the guy players hit the net on the serve. Then with six teachers sitting on the bench, you were luck to see the court again. Paul and Emily had to leave a little early to go to praise team practice, so that left me being the ONLY teacher who had any idea about volleyball. Now for those at our school that might read this. I am not upset at you nor am I trying to make fun of you. But there is an element of compromise and the ONLY people hat did ANY compromising were the ones that had the idea to play the game in the first place. Next year the plan will be set ahead of time and there won't be any changing. Anyway my attitude probably wasn't the best and I got yelled at several times about it too, and I bit my tongue wanting to shout out things like "Hello, this was suppose to be a challenge for the volleyball teams", or "I don't remember asking you to play", or "Look bundt cake" Meanwhile back to my crazy schedule. after this Friday and the family gathering, the very next Monday is our annual hoedown at church on the 31st. They do it as an alternative to Halloween. After that the very next Friday the 4th of Nov. is our annual Fall Festival at school. This is a late night event where each class will make up carnival like games and try to get as many tickets as they can. So within the span of seven days there are going to be three major events taking place. The next week after that our school will start basketball. Since our boys coach from last year had a child, I will be coaching the boys basketball team. I also will be coaching the girls basketball team like I have done for the last three years. Our tryouts will be the next week. Games and practices and tournaments are sure to follow, followed closely behind by the girls soccer season. Please be praying for me as I am going into my extremely busy part of my school year. Okay I better close so that I can go bake some cookies to prove to these teachers that I can fend for myself. I'm going to attatch a photo because like another teacher has said in her blog it is the pictures that people understand a lot better so enjoy. "They found Nemo. " Peace out...later on