What's up? Chicken Butt!

Hey! It has been a long delay and the nudges to post are coming. What has been happening? Not a heck of a whole lot really. Post visa approval it seemed that a series of illnesses affected one, two, or all of us at any given time over the past month. I had various stomach ailments, Joon caught a nasty cold that was later diagnosed as mild pneumonia and then moon and mother-in-law caught same cold. It was un-fun. In addition the temperature dropped and the sun disappeared. It was definitely a time to crank the heat watch loads of Big Love and commiserate about our various ailments.

As soon as the illnesses passed it was time to move into the working life. I managed to negotiate a decent contract with a local academy and Moon continues working part time for now. Our schedules are similar so we can go to work together. For now I am working part-time which means about 3 hours a day. It is pretty darn simple and low stress. Moon is teaching elementary aged kids and I work with the middle schoolers. Apparently the younger kids love to talk but in middle school self conciousness kicks in and speaking in English in the classroom can be a tall order.
What is an academy? Essentially kids go to public school during the day and then after school they attend various academy's . Not only english academy's but math, speed reading, and a variety of others ( I'm still learning what's out there). The competetiveness for kids to get ahead in a very uniform system is strong. Moon says it is much worse than when she grew up. Right now the kids are on a month holiday from public school but the academy's are still in session. This means they continue to go to programs and study despite being "on break".

Now it is mid January. Few pictures were taken but I will post what I have. Joon has adjusted well to our working and is spending more time with grandma. They both seem to be enjoying their time together. He is healthy now and putting together two words and learning to ask for what he wants more and more. We think he can't get any cuter and he just keeps amazing us more.
The title of this post refers to my first venture in eating spicy chicken ass. "try iy its chewy" they said. Actually not too bad if I didn't think about what I was eating. Just when I think I have tried it all there is one more new thing on the table. The adventure continues.....Party on!