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Week 48 - Y2 (Jan 28th to Feb 3rd) |
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Monday Jan 29th,
I went to the doctor today to figure out what's going
on with my foot. After taking some xrays, I was
informed that while my foot is just badly bruised and
inflamed, my baby toe is actually broken! Stupidly
enough, that was from an injury that I think happened
on the trek in Thailand. I just thought it was
bruised this whole time, but my toe's been broken for
a month! Anyway, apparently, it's not growing back
quite the way it should, so I have to keep it bound
for a month. As for the rest of my foot, the nurses
fashioned me a splint, and wrapped it in bandages,
gave me a pair of crutches and told me to stay on them
for a month. A whole month! I'm not used to moving
slow-- it took me almost half an hour to walk the 2
blocks to the pharmacy for my
painkillers/anti-inflammatories.
Anyway, right now Joe from Daegu is borrowing my couch
for a couple of days while he job-hunts in Seoul, so
hopefully he'll be able to help me out a little.
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Tuesday Jan 30th,
This sucks. I have to take cabs to work now, it takes
forever to even get to the convenience store for
coffee, and I can't carry it back, and I needed to ask
Joe to do my grocery shopping for me. I hate feeling
couped up.
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Thursday Feb 1st,
Because of the makeup lessons that I need to do for
the classes I missed on vacation, I'm going to be
teaching at the hagwon on Thursdays for this month as
well. Not that I mind, because it's an actual reason
to leave my apartment, and I'm going stir-crazy
already.
My girls at the hagwon took me out for a really nice
lunch and coffee. I found out that Su-Hee, one of my
students, is getting married in the spring! Which
means that I'm also losing another good student . . .
sigh. I also learned that Su Hee is a trained singer
in traditional Korean "pansori" music, and is hoping
to somehow fuse jazz and Korean traditional music! I
really wish that I could speak Korean better so that I
could learn all these things about my students. My
hagwon girls are awesome, and I have nothing but time
for them.
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Friday Feb 2nd,
I found out today that I might have to move at the end
of the month-- my landlord has suddenly decided that
he wants $100 more a month! Oak Young, one of the
professors, and the one who deals with all my business
stuff, thinks it's best that we search for a new
apartment for me, but first Kwon Hyun is going to try
to negotiate with the landlord for only a $50
increase. Talk about bad timing-- the last thing I
can do right now is run around town searching for an
apartment. While I wouldn't necessarily object to
moving (I wouldn't mind a nicer apartment away from my
slightly insane neighbour), I'm not entirely convinced
that I can find anything this big for the same price.
And I definitely don't want to go smaller again. I'm
too old to be living in a bachelor apartment!
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