I'm gonna start writing on this thing again. Why? That's right, you guessed it. I'm travelling again! Hurrah! What's been going on in my life since I've landed in South Korea? I'm going to take a different approach. Instead of rewriting stuff I've already written to people in emails, I'm going to copy and paste two emails on here. They will pretty much sum up what I've been going through for the past 3 days.
Warning: The emails below contain swear words. If you've never heard me swear before, prepare yourself.
date Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM
subject: Time of my life
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Update.
I had a great 1.5 days after I landed here. Lots of fun. Fun teachers, great food, great lectures. Learned a bit of Korean. But since last night everything went down the shitter.
I got sick. And I know it's because I didn't get a lot of sleep before I left for Korea and my journey was very long and it's hot and humid here. So naturally I got sick. Plus I haven't gotten sick since February so this was long overdue. Unfortunately all the symptoms of my cold are identical to symptoms of the swine flu. So Korea has been freaking out about the swine flu and was taking our (the teachers') temperatures twice a day since we've arrived (which was 2 days ago). They've had over 200 cases of the swine flu in the past week. So the nurses and everyone is freaking out about me. They took me to the hospital in an abmulance but coudln't get me checked last night. I was there till 1 in the morning. Now me and my roommate are both kept in rooms by ourselves, separately. We can't go out. The nurses bring food to us. When we go outside we have to wear those white surgical masks over our faces. And the nurses around us wear that too. They're trying to get me tested to make sure it's just a cold/flu and not the swine flu so that I can start participating in the orientation lectures again. I'm missing out on all the orientation lectures and field trips right now. I can't be with any of the other teachers. Just have to sit alone in my room. It really fucking sucks. Especially because I KNOW that I just have a cold. It's not swine flu. But this country has been on high alert for it so I have no choice but to wait until I get the results. It'll take about 3-4 days at least to get the results. I'm so fucking upset right now you have no idea. Fly over here and kick the National Health Security's ass for me please.
Zen
date Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM
subject: Re: Time of my life
mailed-bygmail.com
Thanks Mou. You're always there when I need an encouraging word. They're still examining my saliva at the lab. Apparently it came back negative but not 100% negative. What the hell does that mean?! So basically I could still have swine flu. Except that I know that I don't. I just have a really bad case of the zenith cold. And don't tell me to grow an immune system. I haven't gotten sick since February. Do you know how impressive that is for me? I thought I was practically invincible...until 2 days ago. They've still kept me locked up in my room. Well, right now there's no one in the building cause everyone went to a fieldtrip to a Korean village (I really wanted to go and am so sad that I'm missing it). So because there's no one in the building I've snuck out of my room to check my email in another floor. Hope your application crap is going well. I'll keep you updated on my aids situation...
Z
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