She is EVIL

She is evil, evil, evil.
My evil now ex-boss (otherwise known as the wicked witch of the east) decided to do what many Korean Hogwan directors do to get out of paying their teachers the severence and airfare home they owe them and got rid of me in the 11th month. Having less than a month left in Korea I was informed on March 17th that I was fired. The reason? A messy apartment. Not exactly sure how this affects my teaching. Oh, wait, that's right. It doesn't. It was a lame excuse to get out of paying me my bonus and trip home. Anyway, Kaz came over on Friday night to help me clear out the apartment and now all of my books are on their way back to NZ and I have another box of clthes to send home since it's either that or take 2 suitcases and pay extra baggage fees when I eventually do leave. Since she owes me 2.5 million won I ain't leaving til she pays me. Evil witch took 800,000 won from my last pay on the excuse that I broke the washing machine (works fine), kettle (never used), toaster (never used), plates (hardly ever used) etc. All were in the apartment when I got there, all are perfectly fine and damned if I'm paying for new ones. Not that she'd actually buy new ones.
Have been told by the NZ Embassy that they can't help. What exactly are embassies meant to do then? Been told by the labour Dep last week that what she's done is illegal and they'll send her a letter, maybe this week or next week. Going to see them tomorrow about exactly when they plan to send this letter. ie, this millenium or next considering that I went to see them about this whole thing last Monday. And have been told by the International Centre in Gwangju that they might actually be able to help! SHOCK, HORROR! They will at least come to talk to the evil harpy with me. Hopefully, with someone else there who speaks Korean she will actually talk to us rather than just either ignore us or hang up the phone as soon as she hears English which is what she has been doing for the last week.
Since they need a teacher at the moment, have been (illegally) working at Kaz's school for last week and this week for extra money, plus it means that I have somewhere to stay.
Am now off to think up even more fun ways to kill the evil hapry

Stupid computer

Was being a good child and updating and talking to Kat on MSN when my stupid computer decides to do one of it's favourite things which is to unplug itself from the internet. Not exactly sure how it manages to achieve this but I get the little bubble saying a network cable is unplugged and there goes the internet and conversation with Kat. Grrr. Usually takes several goes to get the dumb thing to reconnect because after all, it would be far too easy and considerate just to work first go wouldn't it?
Am not impressed with Zeus either. I think he's a little confused about the seasons. It's meant to be spring here in Korea and yet today was not only freezing but also snowing on and off for most of the day. Snow and cold are for winter Zeus not spring! And if you have to make it snow that at least give us a huge dumping of it so we can get time off work.
Nothing much has been happening here, met up with Kaz on Saturday to get her new monisor from Kumho World then went out to WA Bar with the Chumdan people on Saturday night and now have 2 more books I want from Amazon thanks to Jeff lending me 2 classics books. Just what I need, more excuses to go on Amazon.
Kat, have Micah for you, will send it with the other books when they arrive which is meant to be in a couple of weeks.
Had OK classes today, as opposed to most of last week when they all decided to be little brats for most of the week. Had my new class (which consists of a grand total of 2 kids) again today and once again had the fun (or boredom depending on your point of view) of teaching them the alphabet. Now, this would be somewhat OK if they hadn't been doing it for the past 2 weeks, can already say the stupid thing and are therefore completely bored by it now. Did make them happy though by doing mix up the alphabet cards and then try and get them back in the right order before the teacher does game. Since they're 8 years old they thought beating the teacher was brilliant, especially since they got an extra dalant out of it. I thought it was brilliant because it meant I didn't have to go throught the stupid thing for about the millionth time.

I'm updating. Are you happy?

Since both Kat and Kaz are complaining about the lack of updates here's an update about life in oh so exciting Chumdan.
Marco finally got off his butt and did the quiz on Wednesday. 3 weeks after he won the stupid thing. First week after he won he was in Japan and 2nd he never showed up so we decided that if he didn't do it this week he was going to get hurt badly. Actually won the quiz last week which is all good because you get the money but means I have to make the damn thing up for this week. so like the other couple of times I've won it it'll get done on Tuesday night or just before I go out to Billboard on Wednesday.
Had last Wednesday off because of a public holiday so got dragged off to Kumho world with Kaz to look at computer stuff then went to see Brokeback Mt.
Sue has finally gotten back from Canada. Yay! She works at the Uni here so had 10 weeks holiday (which everyone hated her for) and went back to Canada for 6 weeks so Wednesday was her 1st night back at Billboard since she got back last week. She was told on Monday that she had to move out of the uni dorm that she's been living in for the last 3 years and that they'd rent her an apartment. All good except she had to move out that night. The Korean theory is that being a foreigner she will naturally be able to fit all her stuff into a couple of suitcases and it'd only take about 5 minutes to pack. Problem with that theory? Sue's been here for 5 years and has a heck of a lot more than 2 suitcases worth of stuff. Funny that. So she's being put up by the uni at a hotel til her apartment is ready and all her stuff is somewhere in the new building of the university. Sue hasn't actually been told where because after all why would she want to be able to get at her stuff?
In theory since it's 1.30 am I should go to bed, in reality I'm probably going to read and do x-stitch for the next few hours since I'm on the whole not sleeping til about 3am thing again. Great fun.