wow, so i have been a slacker and haven't posted in a while, so i will give a quick run down of the major events...
last week was pam's last week (miss you already girl!) so i spent quite a few nights with her at sunny's followed by a weekend in seoul. two saturday's ago started out simple enough...the friday night before i was out until 7 a.m. with random new korean friends so i was pretty beat, but i was still up for seeing something new. turk and i went on an adventure to the aquarium at the coex mall where i saw sharks and sea turtles and monkeys (yah...) and penguins and all the random animals that make the little girl inside of me tingle with glee...i am such a dork some days...anyway...we followed that with dinner in itaewon at the thai garden to celebrate our friend yoona's birthday. of course, no trip to itaewon is complete without a few drinks at the wolfhound.
following yoona's birthday drinks, turk and i had made plans with pam and a few other friends to hit up the casino where you drink and eat for free as long as you are gambling...and i do love free things...so we spent a few hours there. we left around 2 a.m. and i was up 50 bucks, so i was ready to keep on going, the way i do when i get in a mood. we all went back to itaewon where we ended up at the loft...a pretty typical 'club' where girls drink cheap, crappy drinks for free and guys try to grind on them...gross...but, once again, i do love free stuff...i was there until around 5 when i decided it was time for a nap. turk had already gone back to ilsan so i decided to save 20 bucks and catch a ride with grant back to his place in myoung-dong considering we all had plans to meet back in itaewon for sunday lunch and darts at the wolfhound. sunday morning came too early and the day was over much too quickly. i got back to ilsan between 10 and 11 and realized that the next week at school was going to be a rough one.
the week flew by relatively quickly and wednesday our boss informed us that friday we would not have international school and that we would be having a sports day instead. yay! here's the kicker...girl teachers had to play...boy teachers only had to ref! wait to go korea! i call sexual discrimination! lol
friday came and i was pumped. the little competitor in me came out and i was smack talkin' the other teams and working hard to keep my team's spirit up. i coached my kids on how to play kickball and we were victorious against the first team we played. while we were waiting to play the next team, i watched as joseph from 12th grade kicked a ball that nailed an ajuma square in the face...i realized then that sports day was a very dangerous day!
things were going well and the kids were having fun and i was having a blast spending the day with all of them and getting to be myself around them. after kickball was lunch, followed by some very painful 4 legged (3 people tied together) racing. then, it was time for the dodge ball competition, which koreans play with volley balls...this just reeks of a bad idea, right? anyway, everything was going well.i watched kids get hit in the face and saw glasses fly to the ground. i saw my boss get nailed right where it counts (best shot of the day) and i shared many laughs with my kids...up until i tried catching a ball thrown by joy in 6th grade...and hearing that gut wrenching *crunch!* that my hand made. i hoped i had just jammed my finger, so i tried to shake it off, and jumped back into the game. by the end of the day, when i realized my finger wasn't going back in place like it should have and my hand was swollen to the size of a baseball, i figured something was wrong, but still hoped for the best. i went back to the school and taught afternoon classes with a bag of ice on my hand. not willing to be deterred from finally seeing inglorious bastards, i ignored my throbbing hand and went off with turk and ari (the new teacher from australia who replaced pam) to western dom to catch the flick and then we spent the night at sunny's where everyone was convinced that my hand was broken or i at least had a dislocated finger.
saturday, i woke up, still not able to move my pinkey finger and to a black and blue hand. yoona and i had made plans to go shopping so i quickly got dressed to meet her. when she saw my hand, she insisted i see a docter...so, we went and she translated. a few xrays later, we found that my hand was broken. he put a temporary cast on it and gave me a perscription for some anti-inflamatories (apparently a broken hand doesn't give you the need for real pain meds...vicodin! stat!) and told me to come back wednesday when i will get a cast put on for the next 3 weeks...sigh...the best part is that workman's comp doesn't exist in this country so i get to pay for this all by myself! stupid korea! at least i have insurance...lol...anyway, i spent the day shopping with yoona and then grabbed jess and ari and headed to sunny's and then to la festa to a noraebang. i got in around 3 and headed to bed.
sunday, i was supposed to go to a soccer game with kevin and grant, but i was exhausted and overslept. i did a few things around the apartment and met up with them in shinchon around 6 at beer o'clock where we played darts and had dinner. we left around 11 and i got home around midnight...ready for another week at school.
monday rolled in with subarctic temperatures and siberian winds, only to find that the heat in my apartment wasn't working like it should. that evening, hockey came by from the school and got the maintenence guys to turn on my heat and he gave me the filler piece for my comforter. unfortunately the guys couldn't get the air conditioning vent to close, so i had freezing cold air blowing directly into my apartment from the outside. luckily today, david from school came by and got it shut, so hopefully tonight i won't die from hypothermia.
i hope that has just about got everyone caught up. i know this was long, so i will do a quick recap!
pam leaves :( , aussi new teacher (ari), aquarium, yoona's bday and casino night, sports day and broken hand, freezing apartment.
anyway, typing with one hand sucks, so this is all you are getting from me. until next time, much love!
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