May 26, 2009
a small little update, that’s all.
Not my promised picutre-heavy recap of my Sokcho adventures, but I thought I’d address a few things relating to South Korea, for those interested.
1) http://underquarantine.tumblr.com/ : Some English teachers down south, near Busan, were recently put in quarantine because one of them was suspected of having swine flu. One of the teachers has started up a blog of their “adventures” (their greatest foe is boredom). But it’s interesting to note that the Korean government isn’t being honest about the amount of teachers (there’s actually more quarantined than the 15 being reported) and the quality of their treatment seems to declining.
I bring this up because yesterday my principal made me pinky promise not to get swine flu when I come home in July. I do plan on being particularly cautious (I would feel terrible if I brought it back with me and infected the little kids), but I’m not too worried- by that time it’ll be mid-summer, insanely hot, and hopefully calmed down a little more. But I will probably avoiding sick people.
2) Re: North Korea’s nuclear experimentation. I don’t want anyone freaking out, everything is really fine. It seems to mostly be another ploy for attention. The real victims of the situation, as usual, are the regular North Koreans.
3) I’ll be visiting home in July. I have decided to renew my contract for another year, although it’s not signed yet, so I’ll be spending a few weeks of summer break at home. 
My dates will be July 18th through August 4th.
4) Mmm, I think that may be it. I hope everyone back home had a nice Memorial Day weekend… sadly, not a holiday celebrated here, so it was a regular workday.
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