Not impressed

Moved to Guro, which is in Seoul, this evening. Someone from school was meant to turn up at my place in Anseong at 3pm to check things out, make sure things were clean enough, and that I didn't trash the place or steal anything.

No one f**king turned up!

I left the door open a bit, so that people could just walk in, but no-one came. I fell asleep at about 4:30... after waiting for 90 f**king minutes. Woke up at 5:40-ish, was getting a bit cold - I had the windows open for some fresh air (and the weather has been nice for the past 2 days). Waited until 6pm, and then got a taxi to the bus terminal, a bus from anseong to gangnam terminal, and then line 7 and 1 to Guro.

What a waste of my time. Every time a bad thing happens because of the school, it just reassures me that I've made the right decision to leave.

If I ever come back to Korea for working (which is very unlikely - will only be a LAST resort), I won't be working in a public school, and won't be teaching children. It'll be teaching adults in a hagwon, or teaching in a university.

Lately

Haven't had much to write lately. Lunar New Year weekend + 1 day off) was a bit boring - I just relaxed and cleaned the apartment. Have been wasting time at work - no classes, nothing to do, but have to be here - and passing time. Tomorrow is my last day at work, then a week off (in which I'm sending stuff home, moving to Seoul and staying with friends until I fly out), and then flying out on March 5.


Will be sad to go, but will also be happy to be back home.

Trapped

Shot some random video at school, and turned it into this. Got 4 days of
"nothing" at work to go until I'm "free".

The Final Five

Was snowing/sleeting yesterday, and is snowing again today.

I've got five days of work to go - today and four days next week. Three-day weekend this weekend, due to lunar new year, and I'm going to use this time to clean my apartment, and get ready to move out. The plan is to be living out of my suitcase by Monday evening/Tuesday morning.

Moving to Guro in Seoul on the 24th, before I leave Korea on the 5th of March.

Oh yeah, I got my phone disconnected yesterday.

The English Conference Room

It's called "영어교육실", but when they need the conference table, I'm kicked out of the room, so I call it the "영어회의실" (English Conference Room).

Some Random Photos

My music setup

Dolsot Bibimbap from Lotte Mart

Thomas the Tank Engine Kids' training (pun intended) Chopsticks

"Love for Women" - The Mr. Pizza motto

Crazy Color - 미친색이야 - say it fast enough in Korean, and it's hilarious!

Patry Time?

Mermaid Rack

Study Saturday - the video

Study Saturday

Went to Seoul to meet up with Hanna for some Korean study. Think it was the last time we'll be able to study in person ㅠ.ㅠ

       

After study, Marie joined us for lunch. The plan was to go to a Peruvian restaurant, but it was closed, so we went to Itaewon for some Ethiopian, but that was closed, too. But Hanna remembered a Latin American place she'd been to before, and we went there. It was fantastic.

          

The Ecuadorian ajjuma that cooked the food for us was the only person working there at the time, and we were the only customers. She was talking to us in spanish, telling us about how life was like back in Ecuador, and how much safer Korea is compared to there. She was really nice, and the food she cooked was really awesome.

 

Can haz fixed camera?

Was able to download an updated firmware for my Sanyo Xacti HD2000 camera, and the red vertical line artefact seems to have gone. If things seem all good, I saved myself the trip (and the hassle) to a service centre in Seoul.


9 work days to go.


Looking forward to the weekend! wOoT!

Name that song, literally.

Here's a track I made back in October 2009. It needs a name. Post all/any ideas in the comments. Thanks.

Please sir, may I have some more?

So, I asked if I can leave school at 3pm, so I can get to the bank and send money home, put money into my account, etc...


Principal comes back as says 3:30. And my first thought it "you've never tried to catch the buses from out here, and i don't think you've ever been to a bank, let alone tried to send money overseas. wake up.", so, I persisted that I needed to leave at 3pm, because things take time.


Sometimes, it's good to have a co-teacher as the middle man.


But, here's the response:

앤디샘, you can leave at 3 o'clock.
And for your information,
the school committee meets tomorrow at 3:30 in your room as usual(?)...^^;
so I'd be thankful if you clean up the room before the meeting... you know.. if the room is not tidy when the principal and other members come in, the principal probably say something bad about you to parents and members... you can imagine..
so.. I want to let you know that there is a shool board tomorrow, and don't want you to be unhappy about it.

Oh, Korea.

Flow of information

From my experience of working in Korea, the people above you, do pre-filtering of the information they need to tell you. Basically, they tell you what They think you need to know. I have huge problems with this, mainly because I get told no useful information. When stuff goes down, I just put on the typical I don't know head on an angle + puppy dog/dear in headlights I don't know look that Korean students do very well. Koreans get that. Then I just blame my co-teacher.

Not happy?

Made me laugh a lot. I think a lot of people were expecting too much.

Post-it Note Countdown

After today, 13 work days to go.

Camera says no

So, with the intention of starting to make videos and content and stuff, my camera decided to have a bit of a problem.

You can see on the right side, the strange line thingy. It happens randomly, no matter what setting I change. Sometimes it appears for a second or less, other times it's there for the whole video.

I just hope it's not going to be an issue to get fixed - especially since it's a new camera.

Anyway, here's the first video from my new channel on Youtube.

Hopefully, will have more videos to come.

Fresh Start

Due to account issues and things just nor working how I want them to/how I think they should, I've decided to start a new blog. I'll be posting here from now, and will be trying to be more active. I've only got one month left to go in Korea, and I hope to publish as much stuff as I can about my experiences, thoughts, feelings and anything else I wanna post ^_^