My friend Bob (Robert) Simpson is arriving in Korea next
weekend and I’m excited to see him. He’s been travelling around the world for
months and months and Korea is his last port of call before he heads back home
to the US. I met Bob on Cape Cod, I didn’t spend too much time with him on my
first trip but on my second trip to the Cape we hung out a fair amount. He’s a
great guy and I caught up with him via Skype last night. It was great to hear
his voice which sounded full of life and happiness. I’m sure he’ll have a tonne
of stories to tell me and I’m excited to hear about his travels.
In other news I arrived at school this morning to be
informed that tomorrow is ‘Sports Day’. Brilliant. Oh, wait, it’s not quite the
sports day I was expecting. It seems that at 14:00 the school is travelling to
Chuncheon and going to a bowling alley (I’m not really sure if this is just
teachers or students), after bowling we are going for dinner in Chuncheon and I’m
hopefully getting a ride back with the school librarian. Nice of them to let me
know with such notice, usually I wouldn’t find out about the venture until an
hour before we're due to leave. The only downside to this is that I’m going to
have to leave Natalie alone for the evening, something I would rather not be doing
on our last week together. Despite this, I will try and have a good time and be
affable about it.
Wednesday is pay day and Natalie and I were intending to
book all of our flights, I suppose we’ll move that to Thursday now, as when I
get in tomorrow night I doubt I’ll be in the right frame of mind to focus on
the big trip and give it the attention it deserves.
I’ve planned eleven lessons in one hour and a half. That’s a
personal record and has me sorted through to Thursday. Probably for the best. I’m
assuming a few lessons are going to be cancelled this week but you can never be
sure these days. I much preferred last semester when I got informed of
cancellations and school events with a lot more notice. These days I’ll just
turn up to class and wait to see if the students turn up, more often than not
they don’t.
Such is life here in the mountains of Korea. Where farmers
are starting to plough their fields and sew their crops. Where flowers and
trees are finally blooming. I’m sure I’ll have plenty more to blog about soon,
I’ll try and update about the trip to Chuncheon tomorrow. Natalie and I are off
to Seoul this weekend and she flies home out of Incheon on Sunday morning. Sad face. Times are changing.
Oh the times they are a changing.
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