drop everything now, meet me in the pouring rain, kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain

after a terrible, awful, horrible, no good, very bad WEEK last week... things are slowly starting to turn around for the better. and i couldn't be more happier with that. let's start from the beginning... the cause of said bad week. 

woke up on monday with a killer migraine. my migraine bracelet broke the weekend before when i went out. this means my migraine was going to be pretty bad without it. it lasted 4 days before calming down to a dull headache; in which i still have. got to school on monday, turned on my computer and was confronted with a black screen reading in korean, "reinstall windows XP". awesome... no work computer. after getting the CD's we thought we needed, we find out we have to call the technician and he has to come pick up my computer to fix. so that means i need to bring my laptop in for work. 

tuesday, brought my laptop in. everything was completely fine that day. minus my devil class being royal shitheads. 

wednesday, my work computer was brought back to me in perfect working order. the only issue i have now with it is minor. sometimes internet pages won't load and it says that it's something with the server. so basically i have to refresh the page a bunch of times and it eventually works. so not a big deal. 

thursday, woke up and my personal laptop wouldn't work. completely frozen and then died. i got a grey screen with a flashing file folder with a question mark. just lovely. brought it to work, had my co-teacher call the tech who fixed it the first time. i have to bring it to him again, but he said i can ship it to him. so we go to the post office after teaching... turns out it has to be specially wrapped, which costs more and has to be done at the big post office, not my small one by my school. this means my co-teacher has to do it after work. so now i'm without a laptop and frustrated beyond belief. thursday was a lot of crying. lots of tears. all out of frustration. 

friday, my laptop made it to the tech and i had to wait till like 8pm to hear from him. apparently it was the same issue as last time. he had a 1 year warranty on the part, so he would fix it for free. at this point i was pissed... i just had my computer fixed 2 months ago with this problem and it was already broke again. so i told him to fix it, but it was going to take a week to 10 days.... GAH! at this point i said screw it, and called my mom. i asked her to ship me my brand new computer that has been sitting at my parents for the last two months. it was gonna cost a bit to get it, but in the end it will be worth it, because i will have a computer that works and i don't have to worry about it dying every 2 months or freezing all the time. 

saturday around 3am it was decided my computer was getting sent to me. at 7am, after a groggy phone call or two, being how i got home and went to bed around 4:30am, my computer was shipped through fedex and should be here soon. 

sunday, come home sunday after going to dani's to pick up a borrowed work computer from her to a freezing cold apartment... it was literally 6 degrees in my apartment. turned the heat on, bundled up in my pjs and was working on a few things. went to grab something out of the freezer and realized my fridge and freezer were both not working. at all. things were defrosted and my fridge was warm... lovely. 

at this point my exact thoughts were, 1)technology HATES me!! 2) am i being punished for something?!

everything turned around on monday.... thankfully. my computer had/has made it to korea. though it has been sitting in customs for 3 days. monday did bring good news of all kinds. my recruiter finally called me back with not one but TWO schools that were interested in me. i also found out one of my close friends here isn't resigning (not good news, very sad, but it's the right decision for her), but that opened up another school that would instantly hire me without an interview at all. i also had another friend here who has previous co-workers who are looking for native teachers. so this means there are options.


today brought more good news. it's just piling up. after talking with fedex two different times, i finally got an account number to transfer my duty fee for my computer. it was then cleared from customs FINALLY!! after just checking it, it has made it to ilsan and i should have it by tomorrow! i also went to dinner with my friend who has previous co-workers looking for native teachers. turns out one of them knows my current co-teacher and called her right up. 


fact that i learned tonight: 
there are 3 different types of budgets for native teachers... fully funded by GEPIK (which had all the cuts), fully funded by the city (which is stable), and then half from each. my school falls in the 3rd category of being funded half and half. this means everything is uncertain still. hopefully we should know something by this week. so there is still a possibility of being able to stay at my school. 

and upon me getting home and changing out my dead battery for a charged battery i came into EVEN MORE good news... if my school can't hire me because of budget cuts then i FOR SURE HAVE A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR!!!  let me repeat that just to make sure you got that..... 


I FOR SURE HAVE A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!! 

i am sooooooooooo happy! wether i stay at my school or go to clara's school, either way i know i am going to be happy there. :) 

i am having an amazing week and it's only tuesday! new laptop tomorrow, wednesday is special lunch, which is always super good, a somewhat set plan for the next year of my life, dinner with steph tomorrow night, christmas exchange for secret snowflake on thursday, christmas weekend with dani! it's going to be amazing! :)