Hi again,

Well, last weekend I went over to Suzie’s house for drunken makeovers! She decided we should make each other look as bad as possible, and well, I ended up looking like a man in drag!!

But never fear, my embarrassment knows no bounds, so naturally I have included photographic evidence of this bizarre event for your viewing pleasure!

Other than that, Cal has been making himself unpopular again by getting in a big fight with Jenny (it was all a big misunderstanding) but Cal got his pride dented and ended up making Jenny cry. Poor girl has only been director for two weeks and is obviously pretty insecure about her new role, so Cal’s flawless insensitivity made her all upset and worried about doing a crappy job etc. Anyway, I think it’s all just about blown over now, and I said lots of encouraging things like ‘well, he’s a man’ and ‘you’re doing a great job’ etc. Continue reading →

Hello again!

Well, it’s all go at school at the moment, and we had our kinder festival on Saturday (all-singing, all-dancing, with hired costumes and everything). The kids were actually really great, but the teachers drove me mad!! I offered to come in early to help, and they told me to come in at about 2.30 (the show started at 5), so I rocked up, and they were all rushing about frantically yelling and getting all stressed out. I asked if I could help with anything, but was ignored, and so I basically sat in the corner for two hours!

I tried to help anyway a couple of times, but all the writing and costumes were labelled in Korean, and no one had the time or inclination to translate anything, so I was completely useless, and, after two hours I was quite irritated that they had asked me to come in so early when they obviously had no intention of giving me anything to do. Continue reading →

Time for another installment!

Well, we’ve had huge dramas at school over the last few weeks, and I can’t remember if I’ve said any of this before, so I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself!

Basically, Jenny, one of the Korean teachers, who’s really lovely and works her arse off here, has been getting screwed over by Julie, our director. They’ve been having tons of big fights lately (all in Korean, so I have no idea what’s being said), but it turns out that Julie had a meeting with Mr Kim, the big boss, a few weeks ago, and told him that Jenny does fuck-all work and then Julie handed over to Mr Kim the new kinder schedule, which I have watched Jenny working on for weeks, and claimed that it was all her work etc. Jenny nearly got fired over that drama, but luckily it turned out in an amazing twist of events that Jenny is Mr Kim’s cousin (actually he is her mum’s cousin) but he had asked her to come and work here to find out why the school’s going so downhill. So, Jenny’s actually been here kind-of undercover (the other teachers didn’t know she was related to Mr Kim), and she’s such a sweetie!! (she gives me the inside scoop once in a while when we go out for drinks).

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Hey guys,

I’ve had a busy couple of weeks, but happy New Year!!

My friend Dom came to stay with me for about 10 days, so we did some sightseeing, and last weekend we crammed in some fun and games.

On Saturday we went to Seoul racecourse, and while Cal and Dom studied the race forms and worked out the odds etc, I picked which horse I liked based purely on what colour it as and whether or not it looked happy! Amazingly I won on three races in a row (sadly I was only betting between 50p and 1.50 each race) but I managed to come out about 10 quid up by the end, so I was pretty chuffed! Continue reading →