Sick? We Don't Have Time For That!
So I woke up this morning with a dry aching pain in the back of my throat. I took a mirror to it and saw that my tonsils had swelled up like large red jujubees and were covered with a strange white mucous. It hurt to swallow. It really hurt to talk. So I called work and said "I need to go to the hospital."
My boss's response was that because another teacher was sick, they were short on hands and so they needed me to come in anyways. I went to school, regardless of the fact that I had a racing temperature, and after a couple of hours of teaching with no voice they finally took me to the doctor (on my lunch break, of course). The doctor took one look at my throat and jumped. "You have an acute tonsillitis." He said, shaking his head. "Antibiotics." He said. Then my boss proceeded to have a chat with him for the next several minutes in Korean. The talk was obviously about work, and my boss was obviously trying to see if he could get me to work for the next few days until the weekend. The doctor found this idea laughable considering I was going to be on antiobiotics, had a fever, and therefor needed to rest. Later, when I asked my boss what he talked to the doctor about he told me that the doctor had said it would be preferable if I got rest, but I could still work anyways. What a lying liar. It's nice to know my boss is always putting my health first, huh?
I got to take a few rests during the day, but still had to work for the majority of the day. My fever's gone down quite a bit thanks to the tylenol and after a few days on the antibiotics I should be as good as new.
In other news, I was going to start kendo this month but after meeting my Maestro he managed to convince me to take gohap instead. Gohap is a kind of sword-fighting using a kitana. Of course, I won't get to handle an actual blade until my second month. Right now I'm just using a wooden practice sword. It's very hard on the arms and wrist, but I'm getting used to it. I also get to take Hapkido (Aikido) two days a week. It's a good program and the other students are very nice and accomodating. Levi (a friend of mine who hails from Ireland) has decided to take the class with me so I won't feel like such a weird foreigner.
Tonight my friend Eric brought me a new guitar which is much easier to handle than my old guitar, and a cell phone. I really wish I would've purchased these items long ago when I first came to this country, instead of 5 months before I leave it. Oh well oh well. 5 months is still a pretty long time I suppose.
That's all the updating I can do for now. It's time to rest.
Goodnight,
-M
p.s. Cute child moments of the day: I. I was reading a storybook in class that started "Once upon a time there was a poor man and a poor woman. They didn't have a lot of money and they were starving." One of my students raises her hand and asks "Are they from North Korea?"
II. I come back from my lunch break to find the children all standing around in the middle of the playground. "What's going on?" I ask, and kneel down to see what they're looking at. They point to a crack in the ground and in a look of horror say "The ground! It's broken!"
My boss's response was that because another teacher was sick, they were short on hands and so they needed me to come in anyways. I went to school, regardless of the fact that I had a racing temperature, and after a couple of hours of teaching with no voice they finally took me to the doctor (on my lunch break, of course). The doctor took one look at my throat and jumped. "You have an acute tonsillitis." He said, shaking his head. "Antibiotics." He said. Then my boss proceeded to have a chat with him for the next several minutes in Korean. The talk was obviously about work, and my boss was obviously trying to see if he could get me to work for the next few days until the weekend. The doctor found this idea laughable considering I was going to be on antiobiotics, had a fever, and therefor needed to rest. Later, when I asked my boss what he talked to the doctor about he told me that the doctor had said it would be preferable if I got rest, but I could still work anyways. What a lying liar. It's nice to know my boss is always putting my health first, huh?
I got to take a few rests during the day, but still had to work for the majority of the day. My fever's gone down quite a bit thanks to the tylenol and after a few days on the antibiotics I should be as good as new.
In other news, I was going to start kendo this month but after meeting my Maestro he managed to convince me to take gohap instead. Gohap is a kind of sword-fighting using a kitana. Of course, I won't get to handle an actual blade until my second month. Right now I'm just using a wooden practice sword. It's very hard on the arms and wrist, but I'm getting used to it. I also get to take Hapkido (Aikido) two days a week. It's a good program and the other students are very nice and accomodating. Levi (a friend of mine who hails from Ireland) has decided to take the class with me so I won't feel like such a weird foreigner.
Tonight my friend Eric brought me a new guitar which is much easier to handle than my old guitar, and a cell phone. I really wish I would've purchased these items long ago when I first came to this country, instead of 5 months before I leave it. Oh well oh well. 5 months is still a pretty long time I suppose.
That's all the updating I can do for now. It's time to rest.
Goodnight,
-M
p.s. Cute child moments of the day: I. I was reading a storybook in class that started "Once upon a time there was a poor man and a poor woman. They didn't have a lot of money and they were starving." One of my students raises her hand and asks "Are they from North Korea?"
II. I come back from my lunch break to find the children all standing around in the middle of the playground. "What's going on?" I ask, and kneel down to see what they're looking at. They point to a crack in the ground and in a look of horror say "The ground! It's broken!"
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