Last night I thought I was very clever, and decided to pre-make some coffee, and then freeze it to be used as frap coffee here, today at school. The plastic container seemed strong enough, and I did wait about 20 seconds for the boiling water to cool. I emptied 3 sachets of coffee into the plastic container, and then poured the boiling water into it. Then it deformed into a monstrous sort of shape.
Funny thing is I saw an ad for ice coffee. Not sure if you need hot water at all. The Korean teacher don't seem to understand what I'm talking about.
I spent a lot of time erasing unnecessary files, and organising data last night. meant to make some calls to South Africa but didn't get round to it.
Drank soju last night (at 1am) to knock myself out. It did the trick until 3am, so had some more and then woke up with sunshine streaming through the blind at about 9am. A lovely day. Not sure if it was the soju but felt very deurmekaar (mixed up) this morning. I still feel irritable. Maybe the quality of sleep was not good, but when has it ever been?
I had to demo teach today for a Canadian called Christian. Didn't really feel like it, and he actually justed caused the students to get hyperactive, running around, and he didn't really help and it turned into a good cop bad cop thing, with him being the star and me being the killjoy. It could have worked the other way, except my director called me aside and said I must show him how to teach, which meant I had to take the active role, and get the class rolling, and of course the students just wanted to play, and with another teacher to offset my power, seized th chance.
Christian is 29, and I explained to him about the obsession with baldness, shortly after students began to queue up behind him to dab their index fingers into his bald spot.
Didn't enjoy today at the kindergarten and asked myself why I was doing it. I'd much rather be out cycling. If I feel like this for a lot longer I am not going to keep this up for more than one or two months longer. Money isn't everything. I think today though is just a temporary downer.
Also wasn't able to get my computer worked on today. I carried it down after explaining and translating everything on Saturday. Today I asked him whether he could copy the info on C: drive, and he seemed to say no. I don't know what he was saying, but I have a few half started novels (probably need to be wiped out anyway) and powerpoint stuff, and business plans. I'm not sure whether I need any of this data. If I think long enough about it I guess I do need to keep the digital pictures, almost all of which are only on the C: drive. Need to periodically store data on CD's in future.
My printer would only print question marks, so whatever is infesting my computer is obviously running amuck right now. Tonight I will have the dubious pleasure of spending hours attaching files and emailing them to myself, and trying to set up a few bigger files on the desktop and pray that the computer guy will understand the instructions to burn to a CD. All this seems like a terrible waste of not teaching time. It all seems to have started when I bought a game CD with the express purpose of FUN, and fun seems to be the last thing I am having!
I need to make time tonight to go rollerblading on the plaza near where I live. All this stuff I am doing is necessary, but not much is good for the spirit.
Would like to wake up early tomorrow for a cycle. Not sure if I will use the soju to send me to sleep. But 5:30am is a tough call, and the rest of the day is sure to be a test of mettle. I have a feeling getting out on the bike, especially with Tour de France dreams and memories echoeing in my head, is likely to have me feeling a little better.
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