Free of disease!

You'll be pleased to know that I'm free of AIDS, TB and anything else they tested me for. Hooray! It seems my meagre amount of peeage was enough. I picked up my medical results this morning and the nurse told me everything was ok but then pointed at my blood results and circled 'white blood cells'. She said it was a bit high and I immediately developed hypochondria and asked what it meant but she said 'maybe.....you have cold?' and I started grinning with relief while coughing and spluttering 'yes I do have a cold!' like a gullible audience member at a Derek Acorah show who's just been told they may have eaten a banana in the past. So, I'm all fine. I made sure I took the school's business card with me to give them the address and phone number but no one seemed to want it. Oh well.

I went upstairs in my school to the Korean department the other day to enquire about Korean lessons and the lady I spoke to (whose name is Hana!) said I can start on 2nd of April, so I'm quite excited about that. I'll have two lessons a week and they'll be 12 -1 I think she said, so I'll have two hours between finishing the lessons and starting teaching.

Oh, want to see my walk to work? I took photos just in case you did....

I step off the bus, turn to my left and head towards the tall thin building sort of in the middle of the picture:

I always pass this statue and it was lovely to see someone almost mirroring him the day I took this:

You'd think you could be in any busy city, until you see this guy:

My rough guide doesn't tell me who he is but I'll find out. Just a city shot:

I can't really take photos at the school as there's not much to see from the outside and people will see me and think I'm weird if I take them inside. It's just one floor, basic classrooms with desks, chairs and a whiteboard and a couple of teachers' rooms which are crammed with stuff. I like it though. Simon's is all new and exciting apparently. He could post about it in his blog but he hasn't even posted one entry yet. Which means I'm winning. Woo!