You Gotta Get the Whole 8 Hours

Lately I have been waking up to the light of the early sun around 5:30. This is killing my energy level and I am becoming even more dependent on my ice coffees! There is a simple solution to all of this. Just get a towel or blanket and put it over the window at night but at 10 or 10:30 when I am finished watching tv on my laptop there is just no way I am making that extra move to get out of bed. I'm soo lazy but maybe I'll do it tonight... it's supposed to be sunny and hot for the next 7 days and I need to catch up on my sleep- big time.

As the days get progressively hotter the city gets progressively stinkier. On my way to work I got through waves of stink. The first wave is a little bit like raw sewage which concerns me because as far as I can tell the sewage system here is all underground, similar to back home... I don't know. This wave is of medium offence and is not the worst. The second wave is like a rotten fish smell. There are a lot of sushi and sashimi places around my school and I am assuming that the waste is left outside and when it warms up it starts to stink! This is definitely the worst of the waves and it has potential to trigger gag reflexes for sure. The third wave is closest to my school on my walk and it smells like a purfumey garbage. I don't know how else to describe it ha,ha but it's always around lingering - hopefully it won't get any worse because it is the most bearable of the three. I hope I can get used to all these smells otherwise it is going to be a long summer.

Speaking of summer. My vacation is not sorted out yet. My director tried to tell me that I had no vacation in my contract! Looking over it, it clearly states that I have vacation in July for a week but maybe it is lost in translation somewhere on the Korean part of the contract.

So I got upset- I had just broke it off with Remy, an American I had been dating for a bit and then this BS! So I decided I would call recruiter so I didn't lose my mind.

Jeyion was amazing. I called her told her what the deal was and she actually told me, in her wonderful English "Seriously, don't worry about it, you'll get your vacation". Ahh, sweeter words have never been spoken. I was relieved.

Being the only foreigner in a school filled with little Koreans 9 hours a day makes you really appreciative of the Koreans whose English is really good. It's always nice to go out with Korean friends and let them do all the ordering and talking and not have to fumble through your limited knowledge of the language to get something you want.

Yesterday's vacation was spent trying to keep myself busy. Tuesday night went out to my rival iSPong school's BBQ... her Director and co workers are really nice. Then we went for some drinks and I decided yesterday morning I need to find a hobby that isn't soju. My vacation day was lunch with Molly and then a DVD bong. Let me explain DVD nong.

I'm pretty sure here copy right laws are non existent. So in a DVD bong you will find hundreds of titles to pick from and you simply pick out the DVD you want to watch and then you get your own room and a projection screen and surround sound to watch it with. There's big couches and blankets so it's like watching a movie at home but with a waaay bigger screen. Molly and I spent 12,000won on it which is 12 bucks. I think it should be cheaper seeing how a movie at a theatre is only 8 but that's just me lol.

I'm going to make another coffee and then start my class prep.

Dom out.