I am really sick of airports. Spent all day yesterday in Incheon airport and most of today in Singapore airport. Since you can't check into the hotel until 2pm was stuck at Changi for about 12 hrs since I got in just after 1am. And since it was 1am there were no stores open and therefore nothing to do. Great fun.
Am currently having problems checking into the hotel because they don't seem to have any record of reservations under either mine or Kats names. Considering Kat doesn't get here til sometime tomorrow this is somewhat of a problem for me since I kinda need a bed for tonight. Aside from crappy sleeping on the plane and bus haven't slept since Thursday night so am not the most happy of goddesses at the moment. Am a very tired and jet lagged goddess instead.
Get to go back to the hotel now and see if I can book a room for tonight at least. Joy.
Merry Xmas and happy New year.

Xmas at Billboarde

Had our gift swap at Billboard tonight. Ended up with Wong Chei's gift which was gloves and a hat. So now I have 2 hats and 3 pairs of gloves. The gloves I got tonight are ski gloves so they're better than the woollen ones I have because a) they're warmer and b) they won't get cold/wet when the snow gets on them.
Got a semi day off work because got there and it was snowing but the director didn't want to close so taught my 2pm class (a grand total of 2 kids) and then found out after that class that the school was closing for the rest of the day. Had no problem with that but wasn't so impressed with the fact that was still stuck at school til about 6pm. Did pretty much nothing for most of the time and then in the last 45 mins or so did a bunch of photocopying new schedules and stuff for new classes.
Has been snowing all day and doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon so am hoping that school will be closed tomorrow. Unless there's a blizzard though I highly doubt that'll happen because we've already closed for 2 days but miracles might happen and since the snow is almost totally covering cars could be interesting trying to get a bus through.
Still, only 2 days til Singapore!

Only 5 more days of work then 9 days of holiday!!!!
Went downtown yesterday with Vanessa and Kaz to do shopping for the gift swap on Wednesday. It was crappy, snowy weather like it has been for the last 2 weeks so instead of taking 20 minutes to get back by taxi it took 1hr and 20 minutes. Great fun. Especially when the hill came and the driver nearly didn't make it to the top. What his theory was on going slowly at the bottom instead of trying to get up speed to get to the top I'm not sure but he was probably worried about the ice on the road. We made it to the top and then had the great fun (not) of going down the other, steep, very icy side. Eventually made it home though. We felt sorry for the dtiver because he had to go all the way back as well so gave him extra money.
Was meant to go see Kaz again today but started snowing on the way back from Big Mart with Vanessa so decided not to go, mainly because didn't want to speand another hr or more in a taxi on icy roads getting back. Instead of seeing Kaz I've spent the last hr or so making a model of a Korean Armoured Turtle Ship. No idea where I'm going to put it or how I'll get it back to N.Z but it looks cool and was a great way of procrastinating about packing and cleaning the flat.

Was talking to Kat on MSN tonight and she was bitching at me for not updating recently so here it is.
Not that anything has really been happening. Had the usual quiz on Wednesday. 10/20 for me, my high score so far. Next week we have an xmas quiz and a gift exchange. Should be interesting if nothing else.
Only 1 week til Singapore!!! Am having great fun trying to book a ticket for the bus so I can get up to Seoul to get the plane. Slight problem is that you apparently can't book tickets online or if you can the sites are in Korean. Will have the joy of sitting at Incheon airport for hours because will probably get the 2am bus to Incheon rather than run the risk of getting a morning bus and it being delayed because of traffic or snow and me missing my plane.
Nothing else to say so I'm off to read my new books that arrived from Amazon yesterday.

Snow again

Although it's been snowing off and on all day with the end result being lots of snow and majorly icy roads which are really not fun to walk across in sneakers which have no grip it probably won't snow enough to close the school tomorrow. But, hey dreams are free and miracles have been known to happen.
Got the usual boring meeting at work today. Why I have to go at all is completely beyond me as it's all in Korean so I usually sit there bored and not listening to a word of it. We get the joy of extra winter classes coming up too. Great fun. My idea for the winter classes? don't have them and actually give the kids a holiday. Naturally this idea was met with blank and confused stares from my KTs and the theory that the parents would complain if we didn't offer classes. Depressisngly this is probably true since when the government came up with the idea of giving kids 2 Saturdays off from school a month (they only get 1 at the moment) the response of most parents was great idea but we want you to offer some sort of extra schooling instead. Uh, people, the idea of a school-free Saturday is just that: no school. Koreans don't tend to do logic too well and the idea of kids having free time when they could be at some sort of school is pretty much beyond them and yet they see no problem with little kids running around with no parents at 10 or 11 o'clock at night. Koreans have pretty much zero logic and also don't get the concept of sarcasm either which is a pain in the butt for me because I like sarcasm and tend to use it but it doesn't work so well when you either have to explain it or you get blank faces.
Anyway, I'm freezing so I'm getting into my nice warm (I love my electric blanket!) bed.
Later all

Well, it didn't snow on Wednesday, was highly disgusted by that since it meant I had to go to work and Wednesday is my busiest day.
Haven't posted for a while but then nothing has been happening so it's not been worth it.
Had the joy of getting my wisdom tooth out (finally!!) yesterday morning so now have a really sore mouth. Got to scare Vanessa when she rang up about 1/2 an hour after I got back from the dentist to see about meeting up for lunch. Since the aenesthetic hadn't worn off I sounded terrible and could hardly talk so needless to say lunch didn't happen. The time it took to get the tooth out? about 3 minutes. The time it took for him to numb it enough so he could take the stupid thing out? about 20 minutes. Korean logic seems to be that just numbing 1 side of the tooth will work. Considering my tolerance for pain is pretty much non-existent this logic didn't work - funny that - so after numbing one side and trying to take it out and having it not work because it was too sore he finally hit upon the brilliant idea of numbing the other side as well and was then able to take the thing out. His comment on seeing the huge bloody tooth? Beautiful. Might be just me but beautiful is not the 1st word that comes to mind when I see a huge, bloody tooth.
Did get an xmas present from the dentist though. An ice pack and pills for the pain/swelling. Joy.
As a result have done nothing all weekend and although it's just started snowing I doubt it'll be enough to close work tomorrow unfortunately.

Fingers crossed

Since it had startd snowing again by the time I went home from work tonight I'm hoping that it'll snow enough so that there'll be no school tomorrow. For starters, tomorrow is my busiest day and although I have 3 of my favourite classes tomorrow if there's a choice of working or staying at home in my nice warm bed and doing nothing I'm going to take staying at home in my nice warm bed doing nothing which is exactly what I'm off to do now

It's official

Kaz and I are both totally over the snow. Yesterday morning having the snow was great, kept snowing all day and by night when we had to wait over 1/2 an hour in the freezing snow waiting for a taxi for Kaz to go home and all the taxis we saw were either going the other way or already had people in them we decided we were very much over the whole snow thing.
Good thing about the snow is that the schools are all closed. Had to go in to work for about 3 hrs today but plan to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the day.

It's snowing!

I'm very excited. Unlike in Japan when it snowed for 1 day and was a grand total of about 1mm that lasted less than an afternoon this snow is sticking. And there's a whole heap of it too. What's not quite so good is whenever I go out it always seems to blow right into my face and also made my hair freeze. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to go out in snow with long wet hair.
Had the joy of waking up with an earache yesterday. Great fun. Really. Not a bad one as far as my earaches go but still not fun. Went to the dr and got the Korean cure all injection that they use for everything, the usual heap of pills that all Korean drs love giving out and have to go back on Wednesday. He put some sstuff in my ear, no idea what but it's stopped my ear hurting which is all good. Feels blocked instead but can cope with that.
Am now going to meet Kaz at LC tower so we can go to some performance that a kid from
Vanessas school is in so she got free tickets from the kids mum.