One More Year: Officially Offical

Well it's official!  Today we signed our contracts to stay at our current jobs until March 1, 2014.  We had planned on that for a while now but today it became officially official!  Sometimes we wonder what the school will look like next year... it seems like we have been losing more students than gaining, all the Korean teachers are leaving after next month, and sometimes we wonder what the boss is thinking, but all in all we are excited to have one more year teaching the kids here.  The other news that comes with signing the contract is that I know the exact dates I will be able to go home for a visit in the spring!  We are hopeful that all the kids will come back when the new school year starts in March.  I found out today that one of my favorites will be leaving next week :(  but I suppose that is something that just comes with the territory of being a teacher.  It's hard to believe that we have been here long enough to be officially committing to a second year!