Second Day at School

I forgot to mention that on my first day at school I met the principal. He was very nice and told me to work hard. I gave him the whisky I got at the airport, and he seemed happy. Also, every morning the clean team comes in to clean our office. Students apparently clean the whole school every morning. Interesting.

I need to get some more pictures on this blog and on my snapfish album.Sorry about how bad I've been with that. We have a few videos too. I'll get it going tonight because I HAVE INTERNET!!! YAY!!! The landlord and internet guy set up my wifi when I was out to dinner with my school yesterday. It works fine, except the videos load slowly. Video chat works well though because I video chatted with mom and dad today without a problem.

Yesterday I wanted Niall's classes again, and I did more of my introduction stuff. I'm starting to plan my classes for next week, and I'm not as nervous as I was before. I am teaching primarily cultural topics, and I have like 6 classes where I am teaching from the textbook. There are many less unknowns now that I've been told what's going on, so not as much to worry about. I had a fan club yesterday at lunch! It was really adorable. Three girls came in to say hello and stayed to talk for like 10 minutes. They asked me all kinds of questions and gave me what I hope were compliments. Apparently I have deep eyes, a high nose, and a small face. Yay...? I'm told these are all indicators of beauty. They were impressed with my eyes also. Their English was pretty good, and I'm glad the students want to talk to me.

At the end of the day, I started to get a really bad headache. All the teachers at school went to dinner last night together as a goodbye party for the vice principal who is changing schools. It was a traditional Korean restaurant, so we took our shoes off before coming in (I made a mistake and didn't bring socks!) and sat on pillows on the floor. The food was excellent, and I sat with Niall, Grace, and another really nice co-teacher. She offered to help me with anything I need because, in her words, she's a mom, so she knows how to help people. I wish I could have enjoyed more of the food, but my headache was excruciating, and I didn't have any medicine. Grace asked me what was wrong, and she asked some of the teachers if they had medicine. Lacking pills, she asked the school nurse, who was also at dinner, to come see me. The nurse did table-side acupuncture on me! She said the tip of your middle finger is your head area, so she pushed on that with a pen and massaged my head, back, and hands. It helped for a second, but I still couldn't eat and my head was swimming. Grace was nice enough to take me home even though she went back, and they went out for tea later (Niall told me later). I feel kind of bad for making her drive me home, but I was trying to be pleasant at dinner, and I couldn't deal with it anymore.

I took some medicine at home and rested for an hour. I was supposed to go to Gianni's to see his new place, but he came to me instead. When the excedrin started to kick in, I felt much better. We went to home plus, and Gianni ate from the food court again (we are both looking to having a nice dinner together tonight after all this food court stuff for him). I got a small, USB powered fan, so that I use less electricity than the AC. Gianni got his internet router. Right now, he has wired internet, so hopefully he'll get this set up for wifi. We went back home and tried to watch Big Brother for a bit, but the connection was slow and Gianni had to catch a bus.