It does. It just arrived this morning and I'm playing with it! I also got photoshop elements with it, what's good since my old PS is screwing. But it's just amazing. And it looks so cool and hi-tech I had an O'Neill moment when I unwrapped it, because I just shouted "It's SO COOL!" making my neighbor peek in to see what the hell I just got.
And later in the evening when I came back from work, a friend came over, borrowed Transformers 2007 the movie, "A Twist in the Myth" and "Amaranth" and played with it for a while - before this he never knew tablets existed! You should have seen him, like a kid at Christmas. I suggested I can sell him my old tabbie, cus it, dun dun, works again now that I have a new one. Murphy loves me.

And as for my students - there's a girl named Laura in one class, she's 4. She has the cutest golden hair and huge blue eyes and almost never wears pink (ftw). She's a smart girl but very naughty and keeps interrupting classes. Today I totally got pissed and reprimanded her, saying she's the naughtiest child in the class, that she interrupts my lessons and since English is so important in life, she will be sorry later, but most of all, I think, she reacted to when I said "I am very VERY upset with you, Laura." (I wasn't screaming, I never scream at a kid, just to kids when I have to be louder in order for them to actually notice my presence).
She hung her head and walked up to me to hug my legs (she can't reach any higher) and mumbled "I love you" (in English).
Child psychology and methodological approach be damned. I can't stay mad at the kid.

As far as art trades go - well, I'm working! It's just that I'm finishing a few pictures at once (I have no time to just sit down and do one picture on the flow - something always comes up), so they might take a while more - but I AM WORKING, I swear!

See you around ^^

Mori