It's cold.
And don't get me wrong, I would rather be really cold that really hot. But not when I am trying to get over a cold. I have been sick for over a week now...and while it is definitely getting better, it just won't completely go away! And it is worst in the morning and night, which I can't remember if that was the case when I was sick in the States....but anyway. I should just suck it up and go to the pharmacy again and get some medicine, because last time I did that it worked pretty well. But I'm lame and scared. But I think today I will try to make another visit.
Tuesday was my first open class, which means that the Vice Principal and other teachers were going to come in and watch me teach one of the classes. It also meant that we had to submit a very detailed lesson plan almost a week in advance, so that took a lot of extra time. The day of my open class was quite an interesting day. First, I woke up to a text from my coach saying 'Good luck today! I'll be there for you." !!!! That made me sooo happy :)
The open class went pretty well overall. The Vice Principal was not there for the entire class, but she was there for the part where we dictated sentences to the kids as part of a future game...and as she walked around and looked at the kids' work I started to get nervous. First of all, dictation in a foreign language is not easy for many people despite the age, and I knew that many of the kids wouldn't get everything. But as she walked around I realized that more kids than I thought weren't writing anything at all...which does not bode well for me and me activity-choosing skills (or my ability to teach dictation skills). But apparently after the class, the VP told my co teacher that she thought the dictation (she singled that out) was a really great exercise, which I was really excited about - because although I took the 'Speed Speech' game from another teacher (that was what we used the sentences from dictation for), I added the dictation part myself. So, yay.
The weather in Busan has been pretty warm up until Monday, and on Tuesday it dropped significantly. It's weird, I actually think it is colder inside than outside since there is no heat in the schools and you can't really move around much inside to keep warm. Anyway, so my friend C knew I was still a bit sick, and that I had practice today, so he called me during lunch to say "Hey! It's cold out there! Take care of yourself." etc. Which I thought was really sweet also :)
At lunch, my co teacher told me that the VP had asked her to go to another school to teach/watch another class. However, she wanted her to leave right after lunch, even though we had one more class after lunch. My CT (co teacher -I'm getting tired of writing it out every time) was really nervous and apologetic, saying that she didn't want to have to go - because this meant that I was to teach the kids on my own. I was a little nervous, but I told her, 'don't worry! I can handle it - they may not understand everything that is going on but I can definitely handle it.' She still didn't like the idea of me having to teach by myself without a Korean teacher there, so she called up another teacher (the homeroom teacher of the class that was supposed to come) and told her the situation, I think asking the homeroom teacher to come and be there for disciplinary purposes if needed. But the homeroom teacher said that she could just keep the kids for that period, that it wasn't a problem. So I ended up not having to teach that class at all. I'm not gonna lie I was actually kind of excited to teach by myself to see how I would teach differently and how I would handle things, but I was also relieved. Anyway, I got the rest of the afternoon to myself because my CT was at another school, so that was nice :) Later on that afternoon I got a text from her saying 'I really appreciate all of your help. I am very happy to be teaching with you.' !! The third really sweet message of the day. Wow. I'm so lucky!
After school I went to practice. It was the perfect weather to be running...after running for about 20 minutes and the body is warmed up :) After our warm up, Coach took off 1 of his 5 layers...hahaha...he actually had a sweater vest as one of his layers...I thought that was amazing :) He also told me the exact date of the marathon in January, and I'm pretty sure I am going to run it. Apparently it is a really big race, like 6000 people run in it, although there is a full marathon, a half, and a 10K. But still, 6000 people is 6000 people. That will be interesting.
There is more to tell about another hospital visit (by myself...), a breakthrough in running, and perhaps some school stuff (although it might not be appropriate for the blog) but for now I'm going to rest.
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Fortunately for you Catie I also took Ancient Greek Medicine in College and thus learned the cause of a cold from Hippocrates himself. Ok, so illness is caused by an imbalance in the humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile). In this case, there is most likely an overabundance of phlegm, which has the property of warm and moist. This was most likely caused by a decrease in blood, the humor responsible for keeping you warm and moist. Womenfolk can be particularly susceptible to this decrease in heat, because they lose blood monthly. However, it typically isn't a problem because they have an overabundance of heat since they can stay around the home and don't have to go to war like the menfolk (Again I'm taking this straight out of Galen). Anyway, I can see how a triathlete such as yourself wouldn't have this overabundance though. So anyway what happened was you lost blood, and since you were using too much energy to make blood and thus heat, your body instead made phlegm so that it could at least stay moist (Otherwise the biles would render you dry). It'll take some rest to balance things out.
Ya know, come to think of it I also go to med school and none of what I just said makes sense. Oh well. I'm glad you had one of the best days of your life and that chorus exhibition sounded really awesome. Take Care of yourself.
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