sick

So I finally got sick on tuesday night and I'm in recovery mode. (I had a fever, headache, bodyaches, and stuff coming out, etc.) Fortunately I had enough energy over the rest of the week to teach most of my classes, though in a little bit of delirium. I needed one sub for one class and I cancelled the rest of my mock interviews for the week. (We have the Ss make resumes, cover letters and dress up and come in as if they are looking for a job.)

When I get sick at my old work, though there were people depending on me to get certain things done, it wasn't too bad to miss a couple of days. The work machine can roll on. But at school you have like all these Ss you have to teach. You can't just cancel class. So you have to depend on another poor, gracious and busy teacher to fill in for you. What makes things harder is that you have to know in advance how well your going to feel the next day(best case scenario) and still while under the weather explain to the sub what you wanted to teach. This is assuming you were on the ball and prepared a lesson in advance. I've been bad and prepping before class at the last minute sometimes. So even while I was resting in bed after classes I was still stressed about whether I should throw in the towel for the next day and about lesson planning.

This is a temporary gig for me, but to all you career people who teach from M-F or on sundays, I give my salute for being up for the challenge for always being ready to teach whether healthy, sick, rain or shine.


By the way I've been on a gatorade, bananas and protein diet in small portions. I'm grateful for the help I've received in food offerings. I'm about to have some pumpkin soup, (Ho-Bak Guk), it looks good.

This past monday to wednesday was an offiicial mourning period for the quake. At 2:28pm Monday everyone in the country stopped what they were doing for three minutes and remained silent. We as a school went outside to see the flag at half staff. It was cold and rainy day. All cars at that time blared their horns for 3 minutes. It sounded like an air raid warning scene you would see in a WWII movie. Our students and faculty raised a good amount of cash for the relief work.