TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR TWO MONTHS!! Oddly enough, my first class didn't show up, and the teacher of my second class showed up to tell me that her class couldn't come today. SO, not only is it my last day of teaching, I don't even have to teach.
I do, however, have to figure out the rest of the stuff for my three day winter class. I've been putting off the details, because I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to teach it.
I hung out with the first grade teachers during lunch (it wasn't provided by the school) and for a while after that. I had to tell them goodbye around 2:00PM though, because I had to meet Hee to get a few things taken care of. All morning, since I didn't have to teach, I was working on arranging Rebecca's and my flight. After all of the crap that we have been through, we jumped on this offer. It's from the original travel agency that said this flight didn't have any more seats left, but I guess seats opened up! So, Hee helped me get a 50,000 Won (~$50) phone card, and then walked with me to the bank to help me transfer all $1,742 (for both Rebecca's and my ticket). We had to transfer money by 4:00PM, so naturally when we got there around 3:30PM and my card got stuck in the machine...I slightly panicked. Luckily, it was quickly spat out after a call to the bank. Hee and I got ice cream from a bakery for the walk back to the school.
BTW...she has the cutest baby belly!! She's going to be super pregnant by the time next semester rolls around.
After getting all of that taken care of, I fixed some stuff in my room. Again, luckily that I stuck around that long, because my visa pictures were brought to the school by the man who had taken them. He had to drop off some photos anyway, so he brought my visa pics. They are very nice...thick paper and peel off sticky backing! It doesn't take a lot to excite me!
As I got ready to head out, I packed up this 1,000 (~$1) red, santa bag with the Christmas tree from my classroom, the Merry Christmas sign I had made, and all of the felt Christmas-y decorations I had made. I felt kind of like the Grinch who stole Christmas...since I had all of the Christmas decorations packed in a bag and I was hauling them out of the school.
I asked permission to put the tree in the living room; my host rents said that it would be okay. For some reason, any time I put up a Christmas decoration, I made sure my host father was out of the room. I think it is because his initial reaction to the idea of Christmas and a Christmas tree wasn't the most positive, but he ended up liking all of the decorations.
My host family went out together to meet some friends of my host father; they're going to be gone until Sunday. I went to my club meeting. It was a role-playing one today. I had to play a woman who thought that her husband was cheating on her with another man. They tried to assure me that Korean culture is different and that men are sometimes closer than western men. I spun it by saying that I found a man's name card with a heart drawn around the name. I immediately tried to get them not focus on the idea that it might be a man. I informed them that I didn't care if it was a man or a woman; I care if he is cheating on me in general.
We headed to the Makkoli bar afterward. We got into a political and English education discussion/debate. The girl from South Africa that has been irking me since she got to the club, said a few things that made me want to slap her. She basically said that we need to let SoKo's education cave in on itself before they are going to change anything. Hmm...I don't believe in standing by and watching an education system destroy itself, but you know, hey, whatever. There is a guy in the group who supported #6 presidential candidate (he's a fresh face...just quit Kimberly Clark to run for president). Anyway, he hates the new SoKo president just about as much as I do, but he informed me that there are good points to Lee Myung Bak. We never actually talked about what those positive points are, but I sure would still like to know.
I got home around 12:30AM, and went to bed not a whole lot after that. It's weird sleeping in an empty apartment!
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