Jason's Birfday...

Well, I had a great birthday. It was fun. I got a new Kindle Touch, which is SOOOOO amazing! Also, I got a really cool leather jacket. My wife pretty much made it the best day ever. We celebrated at Kraze Burger and it was delicious as usual.

We started my birthday by starting our vacation and we don't go back to school until Wednesday, which is nice. Tomorrow I'm getting LASEK surgery. That's different than LASIK, but it does essentially the same thing. We'll be sure to post about that.

Anyway, here's a video taken on my birthday. Enjoy!

Welcome to 2012! We're sure glad to be here. Being January means that we only have 9 more months in our contract with the Hagwon. That's crazy! Although we often have to remind ourselves that 9 months is still a really long time. So, I guess that means making more videos, writing more blog posts and trying as hard as we can to enjoy our job and the life we are living.

Emily and I both have a hard time around the holidays away from our families. It's good to be over the hump, but we still miss everyone back home. Talks of a third year for us are still up in the air. The thing is, we could come home completely debt free from our student loans and with a decent amount of money for a down payment on a house if we stayed third year. It's tough to decide. We would hate to miss the holidays again, but that can't be our deciding factor. (Although it still plays a part, no matter how mush we say it doesn't.)

In other news, school is, well, school. It's day-after-day, class-after-class. It seems like every day we get a class added to our schedule. Emily gets it more than I do. I had one student from our last job at Songwon tracked me down so she could have a private class with me at our Hagwon. That's all well and good, flattering really, but because of this student I start my classes at 3:30 instead of 4:00. That pushes one class I have into my break, cutting it in half. It stinks, but I guess the day goes by faster. I've really got no room to complain. The teachers think Emily's class is too big with 10 students or so, so they took away one of her breaks and split the class into two classes to make it "easier" for her.

Well, now that I'm done with the complaining paragraph, we can move on to the good stuff coming up in January. This January is going to be nice. My wife has given me one of the best gifts I could have ever asked for. Winter vacation is coming up, which means our school lets the school off for a whole day! Then it's a national holiday on a Monday and Tuesday, so we are getting three days off from work. This is nice. But what Emily did for me was even better. She went down and asked for Wednesday January 18th, (my birthday) and Thursday off, meaning we are going to have seven strait days of no school! I cannot describe how excited that makes me. We don't have any big plans. It's cold out there and we've done the winter Seoul thing. It's no fun. Oh, and by the way, Emily had to fight for those two days off, even though they are in our contract. We have to fight for any day off here for some reason. Truth is, they don't want to give you your days off, they just want you to use it at the end of your contract, so you don't get to miss any classes. Well, sorry. That's not how we do it in the Morrow clan. So, we'll be doing this again in the summer for sure!

Also in January, I'll be getting lasek eye surgery, so I won't have to wear these darn glasses anymore! WOOT! That'll be awesome. We'll be sure to post a video about it when the time comes. Speaking of videos!

We're in the process of producing some videos for you and they will be out soon! We've been really really busy with other things like keeping warm and drinking hot drinks and watching Home Improvement, but we promise to get serious with those videos. We know you want them!

So, what about you? What are some of your New Year's Resolutions? We'd love to hear from you!