Jongsoon carvings around an inactive(?) bar in Mokdong
I'm back in the saddle again. It's the middle of the night and I've started to download replacements to the almost 1800 MP3s I had stored on my now defunct hard drive. Que sera sera, je crois. It's been a busy day of installing and replacing. School went well tonight. Wednesdays are always a great day. We've split up a lot of the elementary classes with the arrival of a new Korean-American teacher who will be working part time for us. That's knocked a lot of classes down to only 7 or 8 students which is usually quite manageable.
In total, I think about 5 new teachers have been hired in the last week alone. It's caused for a bit of crowding around the teachers' room. Everyone seems nice though, so I'm looking forward to getting to know them better. Right now, we are in a bit of a lull for recruitment (comparatively since we have picked up quite a few new students too). At the end of November is when the doors start being burst down and enrollments really swell. I assume our school, like others, is just getting ready for then.
The apartment got shifted around too (it wasn't my idea) and now I'm feeling a bit blah. I hate change. I reversed my desks in the apartment last night and took the opportunity to do some cleaning. Then I got up early this morning-- which is starting to catch up with me-- my lungs are still full of dust from cleaning and incense which I burned in the hopes that it was a good idea; my stomach is full of coffee from staying awake; my head is full of the screams of children shouting, "¹°!", "ÈÁ¤½Ç!" (Mool -- "water", Hwajungshil -- "bathroom"). Where was I? Oh yeah... changes. The computer is the obvious change as I've had to say good bye to a lot of files that were too big to have backed up on floppies or to have parked on my internet sites.
A nice change was the final arrival of a water filter. I'm renting it for about 6 bucks CAD a month. For that price I even managed to get the deluxe version that has both hot and cold water taps. Pouring a cup of tea has never been easier. I love it. It's awesome. Instead of dealing with mountains of recyclable water bottles, a guy will visit the house each week and change the water for me.
You might notice one more good change too. When I reinstalled my software, I made sure to load in Microsoft Word first. Then, I was able to visit the ME update site and download a working Korean IME. (There's a sort of half-version in the version of Word I have that cancelled out my previous IME without actually working in and of itself. It also left remnants in the registry so my computer would not let me install a new version overtop). Finally, I am able to type in Korean from home again.
Well... that was my day.
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