The Korean school year is almost half over now. It’s hard to believe. It turns out I will be teaching some courses this summer, thankfully only for a week. The suck of it is that I’ll be teaching the courses ‘as I please…’ which means I’ll have to come up with a small curriculum and have it ready by the 25th. I’ve also got my vacation time put in. I’ll be off for over over 14 consecutive days!! I wish I had more friends in hagwons so I could really rub it in. So work life is good.

Unfortunately I’ve been pretty sick this past month. I started out with the cough. Anyone who has lived in Korea for a few months will know immediately what I am talking about. That cough that never goes away. Then the sinuses went. Then the fever came. I was bad enough that I took a sick day during the worst of it. I took some meds which completely turned my stomache inside out. Even after I finished the meds I had stomache issues for a few days. There was a beautiful and blissful day where something didn’t physically break down. Then on Thursday I got a blister and rash between my toes, By saturday it had grown so much that I went to the doc who gave me some cream and 15 days of Fucozol, an anti-fungal pill (the name sounds like ****-us-all to me which still gets a juvenile laugh). Anyways the rash has been growing since the and I’m probably gonna wind up going back to the doc and getting a skin-doc referral if it continues to grow. The worst part of this is that it’s mucking up my summer resolutions, mainly where getting in shape is concerned. I’ll have to wait until my foot is healed before i can exercise again. Despite the ailments I am in good spirits. I’ve been taking another Korean cooking course and will actually get to go shopping at the traditional markets for cooking class materials in a couple of weeks, it should be fun. Maybe I’ll try working on some kind of guy – ae-gi-yo(beautiful way – I think) with the market ajumas.