First day at school

March is the month when new school year begins.
My daughter just entered elementary school in March 2nd.
The first semester will be over in mid July for summer vacation and the second semester will start late August.

In Korea, children go to school at 8 by Korean age. (She was born Sep. 2002.)

There were eight classes and each class has 28 children(girls:boys = 13:15).
She entered the school that I graduated from. It was another joy to visit my mother school(mother school means in Korea the school that you graduated from) and see the places I studied and cleaned. The good news is the most of the building except one was reconstructed. The school was estabilished in 1943.

When I went to elementary school in 1980, there were seventy students per a teacher.
The bathroom was very old, so there was no flushed toilet. There were just a 'stinky black hole' in the bathroom, thus it was a great adventure for 8 year olds to take a pee.
And there were mysterious stories about the bathroom such as a student fell into the hole and he became a ghost, etc.

Now everything is well renovated and modern... which is good.

new starters

Barack Obama, new president of USA
Homeplus, Gangdong branch in Seoul, Korea. It will open THIS WEDNESDAY!!
My mother. She will start to take care of my nephew from this month. She had been taking care of my children until October, 2008.
I. as a full time mother.
My internet. It will lead me to a broader world.

I will try to keep my blog by writing my life as a Seoulite, housewife, a mother.
Through this, I would like to brush up my English, and introduce the real life of Korean ajumma to the world outside.

I resigned from a job that I'd worked for 12 years. While I worked there, I had so many things in mind when I got free, but now as I am really free I don't know what to do.

First of all, I will visit Employment Service Center this Wednesday to apply for the unemployment welfare money.

Second, I will take an exam to be the first grade social worker, on February 2009.


Good luck to myself and every new starter!

The Duchess: the first movie I will see

I have seen less than five movies since my first daughter was born in 2002.

A lot of movies and DVDs are waiting for me!!

The Duchess will be the first one after I am out of work!!

According to imdb, the Duchess is firstly released in Korea.

Hello, Keira! See you in November in Seoul!

E Je Si Jak! (Now Start!)

"It is not the end, but the beginning." is the motto for my life now.
As I am resigning from the work that I have been working for more than 12 years, now I am starting a career as a full-time mother.
I believe this blog will be a good friend of mine and be a good method for me to communicate with the world outside... outside of my sweet home in Seoul .