My worst fucking day so far

I actually had to remove myself from the room so that I wouldn't hit a kid, I was so angry. Which would be why I am sitting here right now with a glass of wine, I have a feeling that the rest of the bottle will be disappearing pretty quickly as well.
So, landline in my apartment finally got installed today, didn't even miss any classes, which sux.
So all the bad things that happened after this:

1. Was told that I won't be having my breaks on Friday or Monday, so will be teaching right through from 10.10 until 8.05 - am
really pissed off about this.

2. I'm probably not going to be getting my overtime pay on Friday like they said I would, so am doing nothing and going
no where at Chew Sock.

3. Went to my fourth class, I got absolutely nothing at all done. I am supposed to teach 3-4 pages a class, didn't even get
through one (and this would be the class I was a actually prepared to carry out any and all threats).

4. While I was teaching said class, kids from the next class kept banging on the door and running away. I told them if they did it
again I would give them lines (and I don't even teach them). Ended up telling their KT about it and they all had to apologise to me.

5. One of my favourite students has decided to ignore absolutely everything i say, so ended up sending her out of the class
and giving her lines to write.

6. Mum and Dad, if you don't want me to call so late, turn on the damned answering machine and I won't.

Bored, bored, bored ................

Am sitting at home on my break waiting for the telephone installation man to show up, and it looks like he won't be here for like another hour, so I thought I would update. Not that I have a lot to say. Though, there is a bonus to this dude being so late, it looks like I'll be missing my first hogwand class at the very least this afternoon, though, Chelsy went and made up for that today already by telling me that I won't be getting my usual breaks on Friday and Monday, Friday because of birthday party and Monday because we're making rice cake for chew sock - suck, suck, suck!
But at least I only have to work one day next week. Unlike people who don't live in Korea! Though seeing as they still haven't paid me my overtime, I will probably be stuck in Gwangju with nothing to do, coz I won't be able to afford to go anywhere! Aren't I just full of complaints today!
Um, had a really boring weekend, did a lot of nothing, it was great! Work has been the same as usual, though I haven't made anyone cry yet this week, that's a bonus, but there are still 2 days to go!
Well, I'm going to get back to my chum chi kim bap now, yum!

ONLY 57 DAYS TILL I GO HOME (ONLY 37 TEACHING DAYS). AND ONLY 65 DAYS UNTIL I GO TO AUSTRALIA - YEY YEY YEY!

So, the rest of the week!

Went back to work on Tuesday, and have been sick since then. Went to Billboard on Wwednesday night, hung out with Nige and Van and the others for a couple of hours, ate some Tang Soo Yook, came home. Had a kindergarten field trip on Thursday, we went to the traffic park, so that the kids could learn about traffic safety, wasn't too bad all things considered, plus they got to play on a playground for an hour or so, the went on a little train (like Grandad's when I was little) and rode some bikes. One of the cops had a really nice ass, other than that nothing much.

Lost my voice yesterday, it's coming back slowly, so don't bother trying to call, I can't talk to you, oh, and to top it all off I think I have an ear ache, but at least I finally got some sleep last night, and no annoying mothers called me at 6.16am and then again at 7.17am, the first call could have been avoided by the checking of emails, the second I could of lived with, had I not already had the first.

So, I'm planning a pretty boring weekend, where I go get my bike fixed and buy some stuff from the mart tomorrow for lunches next week. I think I'll go back to sleep now. Later

There is now exactly 2 months until my contract ends, so 61 DAYS TILL I FINISH WORK, 62 DAYS TILL I LEAVE KOREA AND 70 DAYS UNTIL I GO ON VACATION TO AUSTRALIA. YEY YEY YEY YEY YEY!

So the weekend in Seoul .......

(ok, so I started writing this blog days a go, but was so tired that I couldn't be bothered finishing it, plus I have been sick all week - actually lost my voice yesterday, yeah, enjoy it while you can! so now I will finish it)
was a weekend of very little sleep and a lot of drinking and all round good times. Left Gwangju on Friday night, got to Seoul at 12.30am, got motel rooms and dumped our stuff in our rooms, got changed and headed out for something to drink. First bar we went to was a gay bar, did not make Scott happy at all, was way expensive too. Didn't stay there long, went to another bar that had no door charge and much cheaper drinks, thank the gods, meet a sleezy guy who looked like Alec Baldwin and kept running his hand up and down my leg, couldn't be bothered causing a scene, but Carrie successfully removed him. Later on he was throw stuff like butter knives and glasses all over the bar. So, went to bad at something like 5am.

Got up again at 9.30 (not nearly enough time to sleep at all. We all got subway for breakfast (Me, NIge, Sen, Scott , and Carrie), then Nige and Carrie went off to do their own thing and Scott, Sen and I went on the City Bus Tour, went to Seoul Tower, but been there and done that before (found that the battery in my camera hadn't been charged like I thought it have, arrrrrggggghhhh! And that the bathrooms in Seoul Tower are the coolest bathrooms I've ever seen.) Jumped back on the bus and went to Insa-dong, were going to go to the King's palace, but you could only go in on a tour and the next English tour wasn't for ages and it was really long, so we decided not too, after we bought the tickets of course! So Insa-dong is a shopping district in Seoul, lots of souvenier stores, I bought a really cool new necklace and we went in to this like toy museum I guess, they had a huge collection of everything, including a life sized Darth Mal, it was pretty cool. Had some Indian for lunch, was incredibly spicy but I ate it anyway. I was feeling pretty wrecked by then and my knee was rather sore, so I went back to the motel in Itaewon to rest and Sen and Scott continuted on the bus tour.

Anyway, feel asleep until Nige called me, and said he was knocking on the door to my room, turns out he was knocking on the door to Sen's room not mine, I had a different room, coz I ended up having to share with Sen on the first night coz there weren't enough rooms. So, Nige and I went clothes shopping, yes, a guy wanted to go clothes shopping, we both got new jeans and I got 2 new tops as well, for a grand total of 57,000 won, great huh! Then we went out to dinner, had galbi, Korean BBQ, my absolute favourite food here, and drank a lot of beer, was pretty wasted by the time we left at 10. Then we headed back to Itaewon, coz Nige had dragged us half way across the city just for a cheap meal. So then we went to a couple of bars, the second one had a 5000 won door charge but after that Ladies got to drink for free, so I ended up rather drunk, and spent most of the night dancing with some guy from South Africa. Went to bad about 6am.

Got up at 9am, with the absolute worst hangover, we had subway for breakfast again, then Scott, Sen and I headed for Lotte World, a rather large theme park in Seoul, we went on some rollercoasters (not good for people with hangovers), a gyro swing (which I like more than the rollercoaster, the free fall, a bungy ride, a wave ride, this Giant Loop (that has left me with sore shoulders and a sore stomach, as you literally fell out of your seat when you went upside-down and were held place by a bar at your stomach and a harness over your shoulders), then went in the spinning baskets, which turned out to be the worst thing of all, and lastly we went on a ride called the Pharoh's Fury, which is obviously set in ancient Egypt. All this took a little over 4 hours. At 4pm, we hopped on the subway and headed for the train station and our train back to Gwangju, which was a 5.25. Got back to my apartment at about 9, Scott knocked on the door 20 minutes later, can I get my spare key from you, he lost his keys in Seoul!

Then I slept for like 14 hours, thank the gods I decided to take Monday off work!

one other thing

ONLY 73 DAYS TO GO - and i will hopefully have my tickets booked by the end of next week, so fingers crossed on that one!

The Weekend

So, ended up getting nice and drunk on Friday night, Nige's fault, he called after I had already skipped dinner and drank half a bottle of wine, so by the time I got home at around 5am I was pretty out of as Mark found out coz he was online too. So, didn't surface till around 2 on Saturday, got the tires on my bike pumped up, so now I can ride it again, then didn't really do a lot after that, just chatted online.
Sunday, I went shopping and then met Lynn, one of my KT's, and went to the movies, saw United 93, it's ok but not really my kind of movie, I did however find out that the Devil Wears Prada is being released here next month, so I will definitely be going to see that.
So, another rather boring weekend for me. Next weekend however will be much more fun, we're going to Seoul - on Saturday we're doing a river cruise, the city bus tour and going clubbing. On Sunday we're going to Lotte World, and huge indoor amusement park and the going shopping before coming home. I also have Monday off work, took a vacation day, so I believe I shall be spending some time recovering, I think I'll be needing it.
oh, and have found out that I won't be able to go to jeju at tu soc coz everything is booked out, well all transportation to the island anyway, might go for a weekend after I get paid next month who knows.
Anyway, that is all I currently have to report coz you probably don't really want to know about yesterdays with my evil director of foreign teachers, but I won, so yey!

Half way through the week

well, so we are half way through the week already, had a pretty quiet, well boring weekend really. Didn't do a whole lot. I finally got around to replacing the contact lens I lost, only to find when I went to put them in on Tuesday morning that I hadn't really lost it at all, it was hding in the case where I keep my lenses.
Monday, was a total disaster, pure hell really, the kids spent the whole day doing the exact opposite of what I asked them to do or not to do, was really prepared to kill some of them. The last 2 days have been better, thank the gods for that too. Only had 1 really annoying class today, I have 15 students who barely speak any English and they drive me mad, I can't get the to be quiet and listen for even 10s seconds. Today most of them got to write I can be quiet 50 times, coz I couldn't be bothered yelling at them any more, they are evil. I think they do it just to get at me, they really need to remember to be quiet and listen or they get no games, and unfortunately bribing them candy doesn't work on this class (a real bugger).
So, going to Billboard tonight, missed last week, and it looks like Brian will be leaving us soon coz his boss screwed him over and he doesn't have a visa, so it should be interesting.
Oh well, Scott will be here in a mo, so will catch you later.

another thing ...

One good thing about yesterday was that I didn't have to go on the field trip with the kindergarten classes.

AND IT IS ONLY 84 DAYS TILL I GET TO GO HOME AND 93 DAYS UNTIL I GOT TO AUSTRALIA!

Ok, so I've been getting lazy

because I haven't been checking other peoples blogs I've been forgetting to write my own, plus it's been a bugger of a week.
But the intensive course has finally finished, thank the gods for that too, was ready to kill yesterday, and today wasn't much better. Yesterday was a wonderful day really, I taught 1 class from 10-11, had a 4 hour break, taught another class from 3.10-3.55, had another break, this time for and hour and a half, then I taught my last class from 5.40-6.25, a really boring and completely pointless day. I suppose I should have done my report cards, but i couldn't be bothered, I did my shopping, which turned out to be a really bad idea, as I walked to do it, so by the end of the day my knee was aching incredibly badly. Had to go back to work last night anyway, as was Rachel's leaving and Scott's birthday celebrations, but came home before 10, coz my knee hurt so much that I felt sick, fun huh!
My highlight for today was that I finally got around to getting my hair cut, so there are no more split ends and it's a couple of inches shorter.
Well, that pretty much covers my hellish week, as for the weekend, I probably won't be doing a lot, will go downtown tomorrow and get another calling card, and also some new contacts, since I lost one of my other ones, so if anyone is online, I probably will be there too.
Oh, and it looks like Rachel (the Rachel from uni) will be taking my job when I leave, so people at work love me at the moment to!
I believe that is all, if you're lucky I may even remember to update in a couple of days once I've had a lot of sleep :)