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Not much to report. Just checking in. I'm super excited that Obama was reelected. I haven't been able to check in on all the election day results due to the Chinese "election". What? Oh, let me tell you. China is appointing a new president that noone knows anything about. My assistant tells me that this is because China is too big to know the people in it. As a result, the internet has been much harder to use than normal, and I find it very frustrating. Therefore, I have not been on it much. Thing are expected to go back to just the normal Chinese frustrations that come from trying to use the internet by next week. Fingers crossed.

I woke up today due to a phone call from my co-worker, Peter. Peter is an Australian-Chinese man who is a subject teacher. (I am a homeroom teacher, there are 5 of us and 14 subject teachers in the English section) He was calling to invite me to his home to hang out with his family. I said "Ok!" so I went and hung out with a Chinese family. It was way less awkward than I thought. He has a 7 year old daughter who I played with. His mom made a delicious lunch. Not too bad.

I'm finally getting around to planning my vacation. As noted earlier, the internet has made it super challenging. I am going to Cambodia for 3ish weeks, Kuwait for a few days and to SEE SOPHIA! FINALLY AFTER A MAJORITY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN LONG DISTANCE AND I"M SO EXCITED. Then we are going to Sri Lanka. I think the actual traveling will be a bit pricey, but the rest of it should be AWESOME. I am unsure as to if I will be doing Cambodia on my own or not. I think I will get my scuba certs though, so that's cool.

Work was good this week. I started a language exchange with one of the school administrators, so hopefully I can pick up some Mandrin. I  know a bit, but I usually just panic and speak Korean, which is weird because I didn't really speak much Korean in Korea. Ehh, what can you do?

Bathrooms.

The homeroom teachers after I was observed by about 30 teachers all day. Brendon has grades 3-4, Chris has the juniors, I have 5-6, Emma has 1-2, Dave has the seniors. And he's the boss.

Life is good. It's getting cold. It snows sometimes. I found the yarn shops, so I have a hobby going. Finally.