LASEK- so i finally went to get the lasek surgery. I was scheduled to go on friday after school. So as soon as i got out of winter camp Ivano and I left for Seoul. Since Jacky was not gonna be able to get there at the time of surgery Angela (her friend) was kind enough to be there for me at 4pm in case i needed anything, or i did not understand something. i was excited but nervous. waited for a while until they called my name. Took off my shoes, sweater, glasses and was ready. Angela came into the first room with me. There they put some 4 kinds of eye drops so that my eyes would not move and then i went into the surgery room. unfortunately, Angela was not allowed in there, but at least the doctors spoke basic english. I laid on the bed thing and waited there for a while, then, it all started. Pretty much the only instruction I had to follow the whole time was "look at the green light". At any rate, it was kinda scary and the first part that they did, where I think they literally burn or cut a part of the eye or something, was kinda painful. It was hurting, but at least it only lasted a couple seconds. The whole thing was maybe 10min. They they put a cold eye patch on for 5 min or so, gave me instructions on eye drops, and i was on my way home with ivano. We had to get home asap since Angela told us that the pain would start kicking in after 3 hrs or so. And it did. After about 3 hrs my eyes started to really hurt, but they did give me lots of pain killer to take. So I took them. Ivano took care of me the whole time and made sure I was taking the right pills and the right eye drops at the right times. For almost 2 days I literally could not open my eyes, and the light just really made them hurt, But then things got better little by little. I started to be able to open my eyes and also to see a bit better. By the 4th day the pain was gone and the blurriness as going to. Now its been about a week or so and I am doing well. Though bright light still hurts my eyes. Anywho.... i should go for a last check up next week just to make sure all is good.
IVANO LEAVES- So ivano finally left this wednesday morning. It was really sad. Even though he was here for almost 2 months i really feel like it was too short. Time just flew by. And i really enjoyed having his company and having someone to come home to. It is really too bad that he did not stay any longer. But i guess now he is enjoying being home and having some great food. I think one of his biggest complaints from his whole stay was probably the food, as most of it is spicy and he just cannot eat very spicy things so that many times, even though he would be super hungry he would not be able to eat the food because it would be too spicy and so he would get extremely frustrated. I feel like i am using the word "would" way too many times. Anyways.... just a thought. I am happy that he is now with his family and probably having a good relaxing time, though will miss him dearly. Now the house seems really empty. I really hope that now that classes start to pick up I will get busy and not have time to think about the fact that i am alone.
ERIC B- Yesterday i got the chance to chat with my most favorite friend Eric. It was so good to talk about what was going on in our lives, about professors, i.e. malkmus and bri. and so on.... i really miss having good chats with him on the phone. Always remember we would talk sometimes multiple times a day just to check up on each other, see what was up... and so on. Too bad that now we can have hr long conversations daily. Gotta stick to chatting on facebook ( since he has no skype) , which sucks cuz my facebook is a piece of sh--- and it always takes forever to send whatever it is that i am typing and then i have to wait forever to receive what people write... and it just becomes one real big mess!!!
CLASSES BEGIN- so today, friday, technically classes have begun. Though i just found out that really the kids have this friday and then mon-wed of next week and then they are offically done with the semester. So i really did not plan any serious lesson plans. Was just gonna do games and give prizes out. But for the first class of the day i could not even do that as kids were ueber excited. So I just chatted with the co-teacher the whole time and let the kids do their own thing. Apparently kids- 3rd graders- are out of the hook today because they found out what high school they will be going to. In korea, for elementary, middle, high school etc,.... the government/computers randomly decide who goes to what school. So its just luck. It doesnt matter what grades you have, where you live, etc etc etc.... a computer randomly shoot outs results and tell s you what students will go where. I know. weird! but that is how it works here in korea. So some students today will probably be excited if they got into the high school they wanted to while others will be upset. Such is life.
REARRAGING APT- Since ivano left, i decided i needed to move things around, as my place just reminded me of him and made me sad. So i rearranged my place a tad bit. Moved the dresser form one end to the other and had it face not the front but to the side and then i pretty much put the bed in the middle of the room. its more or less the same space but the new distribution of it is nice. Just a different sense of space. Also, a last week i think it was i finally took that huge tv that was just taking up space and gave it back to the owner and jacky talked to administration and the school and i was able to store the big chair and one little chair that i dont use in the school.- so that majorly freed up space in my place. And i actually feel like i can at least walk around a bit better and i can breathe! Though still no space for dancing unfortunately.... which gets me thinking, i really need to get dancing.
SALSA CLASSES- since i am talking about dancing. i was looking up salsa classes the other day and i actually found some rueda classes in seoul on saturday nights, which is kinda cool. So far i had only found clubs where you can go dance but i had not actually found classes. So i think i might go check them out. Plus there are some sauna places where you can spend the night nearby i think. So it would be perfect. I could go dancing on saturday night, dance until whenver i wanted to, then go to the sauna and shower and get into some hot tubs and chill , get some rest and head back to suwon sometime on sunday morning, fresh, refreshed and renewed. Just really gotta get organized cuz i think my saturdays might start to get a bit packed,. There are just waaay to many things i need/ want to do. At any rate.... thats the info on the danceing end
ONLY ONE YEAR- so it is offical that i am only staying until october. When i first arrived in korea and after the first 2 months or so i was actually considering staying even a second year as i was loving every moment. And though i am still loving live here, after ivano coming here, i have gotten kinda homsick and really miss home and do wanna go home. And simply, i just do not see mysef staying here for 2 whole years. i think that would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. Besides, i came to korea to get some new experience and learn some korean and i think after i year i will have done that/. dont need more time. So yeah, i told jacky if she needs help with anything as far as finding a new teacher for the new year to let me know and i would be glad to help. Like i said, i AM having a good time here and enjoying life, but i do hope time goes by fast because i do miss my home and my coffee shop and coffee shop people and friends, and my pool, and coach, and just hanging out and the environment and all, and my fave places to eat etc etc etc.... and of course mom and dad. Most of all though, i think i just really miss being able to communicate, getting things done myself, in other words.... my INDEPENDENCE! Shortly after coming to korea i quickly found out that by not speaking the language you really lose your independence. You immediately become dependent on everyone to do things for you, talk for you etc etc etc.... anything you need you need someone else to be there with you. which sucks. Really.... i mean... some things you can probably get off with body language and acting out stuff, but other things, you need some else there with you who speaks korean, and that is SO frustrating! no joke. .... anyways. that is my complaint for the day. I just really do find extremely frustrating not being able to communicate at time. Some things, that just back home are second nature and you do not even think about, like giving directions to a taxi driver and how to get to your place, asking a cashier if they would happen to have change for a $5, asking where you can find a specific kind of product you need etc etc etc.... the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on..... you get the point.
ok. i think that is all i have for the moment. by the way, sorry if i have not written in a bit, i got kinda lazy. Then again, i DID have eye surgery so i can use that as my excuse as i really could no look at the computer screen because it hurt my eyes. but now i can so i guess i have no more excuses.
till next time
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