Happy New Year!!!

Hey!  How are you doing?  It has been a few months since I updated.  So, here is a summary of the past few months.  School has finished for the semester, but I am teaching a few special winter classes.  I taught a 4 day winter English camp, two days of which were spent at a ski resort.  I have two days of teaching left, Monday and Tuesday of next week.  Then I will be done teaching.  I fly back to the States on January 26th.  How exciting is that?  I am happy to be going home.  I miss my family.

Speaking of my family, I spoke to them today and got some interesting news.  My younger brother informed me that a girl he knows is giving her child up for adoption, and oh, by the way, the child might be yours.  He is going in for the DNA test on Thursday.  Crazy, I know.  He is far too young to be a father.  If it turns out that the child is his, he will have to decide if he wants to consent to giving the child up for adoption or if he wants to take responsibility and raise the child.

I have been mulling this situation over all day and have come to a few realizations/conclusions.

The first is that I really hope the child isn't my brother's.  He really isn't ready for that kind of responsibility.  He is still too young.

Second:  There is a tiny part of me that wants the baby to be his, for very selfish reasons.  I want a baby in my life.  I don't want my own child yet, but I would love to be able to come home and play with a baby for as long as I wanted.  I realize that this is not a good reason for wishing fatherhood on my brother.  He really isn't ready.

I have been missing babies lately.  I love playing with them, but I don't know anyone here who has a baby that I could play with.  Good thing I have a cousin who has a baby, huh?  Guess who I will be kidnapping frequently as soon as I am in the States again?

Two weeks from today I will be leaving Korea for good.  Will I ever make it back here again?  I sure hope so.