Just a Random Weekday!

Good news! I have an internet connection in my apartment now! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! My school arranged for someone to come check my internet because it wasn't connecting and it turns out that there was just some issue with the IP address. Long story short, I don't have to steal other people's wireless networks anymore and I can skype without disruptions!!!!

I wish I had similar good news regarding the air conditioning in my apartment. My school also arranged for someone to come fix my AC but it turns out the guy didn't have all the equipment necessary to fix it =( Boo urns. I have to wait until Thursday for someone to come back! Until then, I guess I will continue to suffer in the extremely hot and humid weather.

I just finished my dinner. I didn't know what the heck to eat so I boiled some veggie dumplings and had some carrot sticks LOL. My dessert will consist of chocolate chip cookies! My dinner sounds pathetic but I was proud of it! I'm thinking I want to sleep a little earlier tonight because I'm super tired. Last night was a pretty interesting night...

I got into bed around 12:30ish last night and just as I was drifting off to sleep I heard someone yelling outside on the street. I checked my clock and it was roughly 1:45am. Of course, being the paranoid person I am, I jumped out of bed and ran to the window to discretely check who was out there. Because I'm on the second floor, I hear everything that happens on the street. At night, I usually only hear cars passing and the occasional Korean couple taking a walk. And because my AC isn't working, I sleep with both my windows open. So I looked out the window, and there was a Korean man staggering down the street. He was visibly intoxicated based on the way he was moving. It was almost amusing because at one point he was leaning face forward on the metal gate outside a building on the street. Then he just started moaning really loudly. I even considered videotaping him on my camera but then I didn't want him to see me and get all drunk drama on me lol. That's all I need: a drunken Korean man yelling at me from the street. So, I got back in bed and tried really hard to sleep. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep around 3ish because that's the last time I remember checking the clock. Next thing I knew, my alarm clock was ringing at 7am for my pre-work "skype date!"

Luckily, at school I wasn't actually teaching today. I pretty much just observed and chimed in when my co-teacher needed me. I was fine with that for today!

Ooooooooo and random note: As I was eating lunch at school, my principal had just finished and was leaving the lunch room (side note: my school supplies daily lunches for all the teaching staff). So my principal stopped beside me on his way out and placed an extra dessert cup (frozen persimmon apparently, which I've never heard of before) next to my plate:

He said something in Korean to my co-teacher and left. Afterwards, my co-teacher informed me that my principal had said, "This is a gift for Amarta because she uses chopsticks so well. She can use them even better than some Koreans." Wooooooooooot woooooooooooooot! Although I didn't actually enjoy the frozen dessert, I found my principal's simple gesture so warm and welcoming. Who knew that a cold goeey orangish fruit would bring me such joy! If I hadn't gotten my internet connected today, my principal's nice gesture would have been the thing to make my day!

Ok I'm going to clean up and go to bed. Hopefully, there won't be any surprise guests on the street tonight. Keep your fingers crossed for me please!