The longest day so far

It started with an early start and a good laze about on the balcony in the sunshine listening to what is going on in the world. And then...

Mr Park: ok, first we go to the hospital. (One way to prep me for what I was about to have done). I have NEVER.. EVER had such a thorough check up in my life. Started with the usual form filling (not that I could read it) followed by:

-eye sight test
-blood pressure
-body weight
-height
-hearing test
-urine sample
-blood sample
THEN TO RADIOLOGY?!!!!!
-breast scan
-dentist

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... And all of this was done in just over an hour. Not bad I would say! So far so good, now to wait for the final 3 results to come through on Friday.

After this was the trip to immigration (passed a man on his motorbike in a superman outfit!) - to pick up a form for my Alien registration. The sitting about will happen on Friday - whoopie!! Then back to the school to have a discussion with the owner of another school about my teaching hours there. Now I say discussion, but it was the usual me sit in the room while the two of them talk about me and what I will be doing. I on the other hand don't know what is being said and thus have no say. Isn't that fun. This is the 3rd school I will be teaching at... And it is also half an hours drive away. Off I go to teach again! No idea of number of students, age, level or anything.

Had an interesting chat with Carol (the owner of this school) about some teaching stuff. This is when I was told about a child that I would be teaching in the Saturday class. THE SATURDAY CLASS?!!!!! NO WAY!! This is when I put my foot down and say nope, this you will not tell me to do.

Apart from that , I again was asked about my relationship status. More explaining about my being a singleton. So I asked Carol about hers - she is 49yrs old (48 to you and me), never been married and has no children. A few years back she decided to devote herself to God and made a comparison of herself to a nun. She has been on her own since and is very happy with it. I guess being a kindergarten teacher sort of fills in a gap of not having her own kids. And she loves them to bits. She also has polio and that was another reason behind how she discovered herself and why she was meant to devote her life to God.

Anywho, ended up teaching 3 classes at Carol's. Well, not much teaching but we played lots of board games :) If this is what they want me to do then I am certainly not complaining!!! Although one child was totally not wanting to be there and spent the whole lesson expressionless and keeping his mouth shut.

I think I will have a huge problem teaching at Carol's because she translates EVERYTHING for the kids.. And they then tell her what they want to say in Korean and she tells me in English - HOW DOES SHE EXPECT THEM TO LEARN?! I might have to ask her to not be there next week....

Ok, so back to Gunsan for the end of the day... Or maybe not... Off to the FOURTH school I will be teaching at?! Man, too much! Had another "discussion" with the owner there and I will be teaching 5hrs straight for two afternoons a week with no break. Great. The plus with this is it is in the bit of town where most the foreigners live and with all the bars and restaurants so at least it will be easier for me to have a bit of social life seeing as I don't finish work until 7:30pm at the earliest. There is also a martial arts class (not sure which type) upstairs in the building so may be joining that in the near future.

Then, to sort out my phone and off to dinner (Italian! and they had heated toilet seats hee hee hee!) to discuss my schedule. Hmmm, it's not too bad!!! And yes, there are no Saturdays :)

Monday I work from 10am - 8pm. Tues I only work for 3.5 hours, Wed from 2:25 to 7:30, and Thursday is from 2-8ish. So... apart from the ridiculous amount of travelling around, I think I could handle this!!! Mornings free for some phys in the park and still time in the evenings if I fancy a beer :) And I have the option of doing extra lessons for some more money if I fancy it too.

Oh, and apparently there IS lots of scuba diving and I am looking forward to a few drinks with some other English teachers tomorrow night.

Can't wait to get to sleep.