Korean Airport

Currently waiting for my flight in KIA. Got five hrs to kill so perfect timing to catch up with blogging.

Sunday

Spend Sunday night with Giny and Keiko in the Pirate Pub. I only had one Martini, but the lack of sleep was probably responsible for my complete lack of inhibitions. I'm assuming Captain Jack didn't speak enough English to understand what we were discussing or he would not have been so hospitable. Ah well, I'm leaving Japan anyway, so I'm allowed to be rowdy. There in the pub, I suffered a severe bout of verbal diarrhea , and I think Keiko got quite embarrassed because Giny and I were loudly repeating the sexual/ anatomy words she was teaching us to say in the pub. She kept hushing us, but being a teacher used to preaching to a large audience, I forgot how to speak quietly :p~

You would thinking 3 hours of verbal diarrhea would be enough for someone as anti-social as I am, but alas, I went home that night commited to finish packing, but somehow I ended up staying up to chat online with Pat instead.(well, we talked for four hrs anyway.) The way I was going, you'd think I've lived on a desert island for 10 years.

Finally finished packing and cleared out of my hosue. Funny how I finished in a few hours what I failed to do in two weeks; I guess it's easier when you don't have to decide whether you're going to need an item for the next two weeks -- you just throw everything into the bin. (That's where my nightmare begins, BTW.)

Yesterday was intense: students wanted to hang around after classes to say goodbye; staff wanted to catch up on latest gossip (re Marc the crazy American dude whom I was supposed to train.) I had to run errands like going to the bank and library (finally returned I_am_a_Cat... still not finished with it either, it's so irritating.), wait for the gas/hydro/water people to turn off the valve so I can pay my final bill, hunt down my boss to get my final pay check...

Oh, and the water valve got turned off in the morning! It's gross enough that I had to drag myself to school without a shower or brusing my teeth; but I actually couldn't flush the toilet... O_O;; Eventually, the water in the vase had to do the "honor" ... but think of my poor tulips...

Boss held me up in the office late into the night to train the Japanese staff to take over my classes ... It's just so ridiculous. She knows how much I have to do; could have asked me to train the staff any time within the last two months (I gave notice right after X'mas), but she waits till the last minute. Boss complained about how I didn't write anything down about my lessons and next teacher wouldn't know what to do... so I had to go through the notebook to disprove her venomous statement. I quite understand if she speaks NO English and couldn't decipher my lesson notes, but duh, she even accused me of not writing down the date. And I thought the Japanese were at lease literate enough to read numerals.

Packed under the moonlight until 2:30, then intruded my presence upon Keiko's hospitality. I'm still under the weather and don't care to sleep on the bare floor of my apartment without the radiator.

Takako took me to the bus terminal in the morning; nice of her, really. Otherwise I have no idea how I would get all my baggages to the bus station.

Right now... I have a murderous headache. My sinuses and are blocked with thick mucus, and my ears simply refuse to pressurize.

Batteries of PC trying to die, I guess I have to put an end to my verbal diarrhea for now!