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Dudes.
This week, and next week, and the week after that: all crazy.
Last weekend was cool, David and I went to Ulsan to see some of his college friends (who are hilarious and who I could actually talk to this time, because apparently my Korean is pretty okay these days). But he spent half the time stressing out about a work issue, and was on the phone almost as much as he was off the phone. So, he was pretty frustrated until Saturday morning, when he finally got a hold of the Shanghai office.
Still, it was beautiful.
Then we went to Yongsan (a suburb outside of Busan) for David's friend's wedding (the actual point of the trip).
And finally, we went to Busan. We didn't do much touristy stuff, just ate a lot of fish and Busan specialty meat, and went to an arcade, where you can sing songs at a mini-noraebang for 500 won each, and played games.
This week, is revenge. We have open classes, which means all my students' parents can come in and watch the entire class, which stresses me out like nobody's business, we have to make all our summer camp lesson plans, we have to make final tests, and we have to write report card comments for every kid. I originally offered to do them all in Korean, but...I am going to have to rethink that plan.
ALSO. We just signed the contract for our new house, which means we have to get married on paper ASAP in order to get the loan from the bank to pay for it. This means I have to somehow magically take time off from work next Tuesday and go to the embassy, then a translator, then the Korean district office. If I can't get time off Tuesday, I am screwed, because the embassy is moving to appointment-only on Wednesdays, and those appointments are only in the morning, when I always have classes. I have a day off on June 24th that I could do it, but that's too late. So, I'm freaking out just a tiny bit.
Today Nancy cancelled our study session (I don't blame her, she has the same workload to deal with as me) and instead of doing something USEFUL like lesson plans or working out, I decided to finally finish working on our wedding website.
This weekend, I am going to two weddings too: one is a friend of mine from drum class, and the other is someone we don't know, but they are getting married at our reception site, so we are gonna find out how the food is.
One of my co-workers said to me today: You have such grown-up problems!
This week, and next week, and the week after that: all crazy.
Last weekend was cool, David and I went to Ulsan to see some of his college friends (who are hilarious and who I could actually talk to this time, because apparently my Korean is pretty okay these days). But he spent half the time stressing out about a work issue, and was on the phone almost as much as he was off the phone. So, he was pretty frustrated until Saturday morning, when he finally got a hold of the Shanghai office.
Still, it was beautiful.
Then we went to Yongsan (a suburb outside of Busan) for David's friend's wedding (the actual point of the trip).
And finally, we went to Busan. We didn't do much touristy stuff, just ate a lot of fish and Busan specialty meat, and went to an arcade, where you can sing songs at a mini-noraebang for 500 won each, and played games.
This week, is revenge. We have open classes, which means all my students' parents can come in and watch the entire class, which stresses me out like nobody's business, we have to make all our summer camp lesson plans, we have to make final tests, and we have to write report card comments for every kid. I originally offered to do them all in Korean, but...I am going to have to rethink that plan.
ALSO. We just signed the contract for our new house, which means we have to get married on paper ASAP in order to get the loan from the bank to pay for it. This means I have to somehow magically take time off from work next Tuesday and go to the embassy, then a translator, then the Korean district office. If I can't get time off Tuesday, I am screwed, because the embassy is moving to appointment-only on Wednesdays, and those appointments are only in the morning, when I always have classes. I have a day off on June 24th that I could do it, but that's too late. So, I'm freaking out just a tiny bit.
Today Nancy cancelled our study session (I don't blame her, she has the same workload to deal with as me) and instead of doing something USEFUL like lesson plans or working out, I decided to finally finish working on our wedding website.
This weekend, I am going to two weddings too: one is a friend of mine from drum class, and the other is someone we don't know, but they are getting married at our reception site, so we are gonna find out how the food is.
One of my co-workers said to me today: You have such grown-up problems!