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This school has 'language deliveries': slogans that the children learn each week, go home to their parents and relay, which the parents then write down - resulting in some interesting variations on the intention. This week it is "If you can dream it, you can do it"; last week it was "Good manners make you nice"; the week before was "The sun rises in the east, and sets in the west".

However, given the nature of the school at the moment I think the real motto of the week should not only be "Take each day as it comes", but "Take each minute as it comes". It seems every time we turn around we find new developments or plans.

During second period today I had a knock on my window, where a teacher came in and said, "Everyone stand up and go to the Fun House". There wasn't any explanation, just a sudden halt to the lesson. I left the classroom to go to a meeting room, where there was a crowd of Korean mothers seated expectantly as all the teachers took their place at the front of the room. We were as much in the dark as they were.

I'm not 100% sure of what actually happened since the meeting was all in Korean, but it seemed that the boss was asking for more money than necessary from the new school that is considering buying our one out. For this reason, all the mothers and Korean teachers started signing a piece of paper, but for what is unclear.

There's talk of suing the boss, there's talk of the new school buying the floor of our building, there's talk of more than one school being interested in our school. The vice principle of one of these prospective schools came in to interview all the teachers, but whether they'll take us on or not I don't know. Not all the parents are on board the idea of the transition, so the money the school can take from them won't necessarily cover all the teachers' salaries. Regardless, it seemed one of the schools is only looking for new teachers anyway and aren't interested in the students.

All in all, we don't know what's going on. The vice principle has told Lauren and me that if we find a new job we should take it; we should feel no obligation towards this school. But of course now we know the children, we've met several of the parents, and we're friends with our co-workers. How could we not feel guilty to abandon all of them? But rationally, we came to Korea to be in Korea - not to work at this particular school. If we can find a job with better working hours, better pay and no drama...well, which option would you take?