Hey,
I've never really posted anything on this site - I'm ridiculously lazy and computer-illiterate. But now I'll be keeping a weekly entry and making friends, not just downloading pictures of naked chicks.
I enjoy Twwly's posts, so I'm going to adopt the same style: point-by-point.
1 After spending last summer in Toronto, I was set to return to Korea at the end of August. I had some delays getting my visa (Korean Immigration can be a pain in the ass.) So my return was delayed until the end of September. Then, a few days before I was to leave for Korea in September, the school in Seoul backed out of the deal and withdrew their job offer. They never contacted me directly, and they never responded to my phonecalls or emails - they simply told my recruiter that they were withdrawing the job offer. Fuckers. Probably, they found a teacher to replace me when I couldn't arrive in August, and they didn't need me. So I had to start all over again.
2 It costs about $300 to round up all the forms i need, and send them to Korea. So I had to get copies of all my university transcripts again, notarized and certified copies of my degrees, and by the middle of October, I was ready to start looking for another job. However, at about the same time, I began having siezures. Between the middle of October and middle of December, I had four siezures - I lost consciousness, or was asleep for each one, so I can't really say too much about what it was like. But it was quite upsetting for my parents. I was staying at their home while I searched for a job in Korea, and they were quite worried about my health (understandably). My father witnessed my first siezure, and thought I was dying of a heart attack. After two months of EEGs (two of those), CT Scans (another pair) and an MRI, I was declared "healthy-ish" and given a prescription for about $400 in medication. Apo-Divalproex is doing the trick, and I haven't had a siezure since mid-December. No tumours or brain damage to speak of - just neurons and axons not firing or not receiving electrical signals properly.
3 While all the epileptic stuff was going on, I found a great job in Korea. My first job was in Daegu, the third-largest city in Korea. It reminds me of Toronto - but imagine a Toronto that is perpetually like Yonge and Eglinton, and nothing else. That's Daegu. The school that withdrew their job offer last September was in Seoul, and the new job is back in Daegu. I already know the city pretty well, and the new job is pretty sweet. I've been here almost two months already.
4 Downloading is superfast in Korea. It was superfast in Toronto until the university blocked my Airport Extreme. Wireless is groovy, baby.
5 I've been downloading lots of old movies - I'm burning an Alfred Hitchcock DVD with Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and North By Northwest. Soopercool.
6 I teach one-on-one classes with individual students once or twice a week (the school calls them SIDs, even though the room we meet with them is the SIP room - special intensive program). They are conversation classes, so we just sit and talk with the student for 50 minutes, about whatever subjects they want to discuss. Last month, I had a doctor (Dr Jub). He liked talking about porn. And strip clubs in Toronto. He kept insisting that he has had 200 girlfriends. Even though I believed him, he kept insisting "I have had 200 girlfriends. Many, many girlfriends."
7 As I type this, "The Story Of Yo La Tengo" is playing on my iTunes. Download it now, muthafuckas!!! While you're at it, "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down", "Sister Ray", "Let's Call It Love" & "Mogwai Fear Satan" were also playing (part of my "Songs Over 10 Minutes" Playlist). I like reading about what was happening to people while they were blogging. Presto! Now you know what I was listening to.
8 Cthulhu lives in my washing machine.
9 That's the only explanation for the screams of cosmic horror that my washing machine makes. He does a good job, and my clothes look spiffy - but I could do without the horror.
10 I'm ridiculously computer illiterate, but I'll figure out how to upload shit onto my page. And I'm going to make SG friends this week too.
-hey.
I've never really posted anything on this site - I'm ridiculously lazy and computer-illiterate. But now I'll be keeping a weekly entry and making friends, not just downloading pictures of naked chicks.
I enjoy Twwly's posts, so I'm going to adopt the same style: point-by-point.
1 After spending last summer in Toronto, I was set to return to Korea at the end of August. I had some delays getting my visa (Korean Immigration can be a pain in the ass.) So my return was delayed until the end of September. Then, a few days before I was to leave for Korea in September, the school in Seoul backed out of the deal and withdrew their job offer. They never contacted me directly, and they never responded to my phonecalls or emails - they simply told my recruiter that they were withdrawing the job offer. Fuckers. Probably, they found a teacher to replace me when I couldn't arrive in August, and they didn't need me. So I had to start all over again.
2 It costs about $300 to round up all the forms i need, and send them to Korea. So I had to get copies of all my university transcripts again, notarized and certified copies of my degrees, and by the middle of October, I was ready to start looking for another job. However, at about the same time, I began having siezures. Between the middle of October and middle of December, I had four siezures - I lost consciousness, or was asleep for each one, so I can't really say too much about what it was like. But it was quite upsetting for my parents. I was staying at their home while I searched for a job in Korea, and they were quite worried about my health (understandably). My father witnessed my first siezure, and thought I was dying of a heart attack. After two months of EEGs (two of those), CT Scans (another pair) and an MRI, I was declared "healthy-ish" and given a prescription for about $400 in medication. Apo-Divalproex is doing the trick, and I haven't had a siezure since mid-December. No tumours or brain damage to speak of - just neurons and axons not firing or not receiving electrical signals properly.
3 While all the epileptic stuff was going on, I found a great job in Korea. My first job was in Daegu, the third-largest city in Korea. It reminds me of Toronto - but imagine a Toronto that is perpetually like Yonge and Eglinton, and nothing else. That's Daegu. The school that withdrew their job offer last September was in Seoul, and the new job is back in Daegu. I already know the city pretty well, and the new job is pretty sweet. I've been here almost two months already.
4 Downloading is superfast in Korea. It was superfast in Toronto until the university blocked my Airport Extreme. Wireless is groovy, baby.
5 I've been downloading lots of old movies - I'm burning an Alfred Hitchcock DVD with Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and North By Northwest. Soopercool.
6 I teach one-on-one classes with individual students once or twice a week (the school calls them SIDs, even though the room we meet with them is the SIP room - special intensive program). They are conversation classes, so we just sit and talk with the student for 50 minutes, about whatever subjects they want to discuss. Last month, I had a doctor (Dr Jub). He liked talking about porn. And strip clubs in Toronto. He kept insisting that he has had 200 girlfriends. Even though I believed him, he kept insisting "I have had 200 girlfriends. Many, many girlfriends."
7 As I type this, "The Story Of Yo La Tengo" is playing on my iTunes. Download it now, muthafuckas!!! While you're at it, "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down", "Sister Ray", "Let's Call It Love" & "Mogwai Fear Satan" were also playing (part of my "Songs Over 10 Minutes" Playlist). I like reading about what was happening to people while they were blogging. Presto! Now you know what I was listening to.
8 Cthulhu lives in my washing machine.
9 That's the only explanation for the screams of cosmic horror that my washing machine makes. He does a good job, and my clothes look spiffy - but I could do without the horror.
10 I'm ridiculously computer illiterate, but I'll figure out how to upload shit onto my page. And I'm going to make SG friends this week too.
-hey.