“Oh man, I was really planning on keeping this tumblr updated more often.”

But now I’m taking a special education course online and studying for the Praxis II test, which, on top of getting ready to resume teaching on Monday, makes me want to spend what little free time I have in decidedly less productive forms than blog writing.

But some interesting things happened last week that I’d like to record.

Last Monday, Valentine’s Day, there was a huge snowstorm in Korea, which shut down buses and made walking on the tilted and pocked “sidewalks” of Busan very treacherous.  I fell once going home and twice going to work the next morning.  Snow is not common in Busan, so basically nothing was shoveled, and the best efforts to combat the ice consisted of throwing sand on top of it.  It’s probably for the best that I didn’t write about it right away since it would been at least three solid paragraphs of me whining about my bruises and moaning about the injustice of me having to go to work in such conditions.  Yes, definitely better that I waited…yet still, the scrapes and bruises are not fully healed.

Less interesting is that while I wrote this another foreigner walked into this coffee shop (OK, it’s a Starbucks) and immediately yelled to me, “hey, fellow foreigner.”  What am I supposed to do with that?  I sort of winced back and tried to smile a little to minimize general embarrassment.

Oh yeah!  I have a new co-teacher…and I’m not sure if I met her previously or not.  I think she’s already part of the school but we were never really introduced.  I’m sure I’ll figure it out soon enough.