I have been busy! Actually, I have been happy and not quite pissed off enough to write anything negative lately. On the occasions I have had an urge to rant, I have found myself lacking the energy/motivation to do so. I am sure this will pass, but for now, life is good!
My new job is awesome. 2 months in, and I have discovered that I work for a gem of a boss. Leaving a public school job and moving to a hagwon was the best thing I ever did!I would hazard a guess and say that having a western co-worker to rant with has also been contributed to my laziness here! My planned post on the failings of the Korean public school English(ee) program will come soon, as I have it in an almost completed state, but I don’t really fancy finishing it up just yet.
The wife has recovered as well as can be expected after her ordeal at the hospital. There were a few minor issues, and she had to return there for a few check-ups, but she has not been discharged from there and has no plans to ever return. The child has a doctor closer to home. There is no way they are getting near her again!
The daughter is fantastic. She is growing very quickly (she is over 12lbs now) and has a nice set of lungs on her. She loves to scream until she gets what she wants. She is calming down these days, and is often in a playful mood, which is nice. At the moment, she loves to wake daddy in the morning (as much as I protest, the wife wants her sleeping in our bed) by shouting at him, or smacking him in the face until he wakes up. As much as it annoys me, she gets great enjoyment from it, so who am I to stop her?!
Here she is right after her violent entrance to the world:
and at 2 months old:
So, my baby was born on the 28th June, I started a new job on the 7th July, and I am also working towards a M.Ed that is eating away at my time. Like I said, I have been busy!
It is a shame, as I have missed out on some increased traffic! Roboseyo made a mention of me at the beginning of his series on whining foreigners. It would have been nice to be around to take part in that. I am a little late to the party, but I will say that I am one of these people who likes to complain behind closed doors. For the most part, I love Korea. It is a vibrant and interesting country, but there are some aspects of this society that I don’t like, and rather than constantly complain about them in bars (ZZZzzz) or piss my wife off, I choose to rant online. This way people can choose to read, or ignore me. If you disagree with me and want to discuss it, I am happy to do it, but I will not impose my views onto anybody who doesn’t want to hear them. That is bloody rude, and I am English after all!
Anyway, onto the point of this post!
I will continue to make sporadic postings here, and I do check my emails daily (and I usually reply to them). I may not be complaining quite as much as I did, but if the need takes me, I will happily rant and feel not one iota of guilt!
I have had a couple of links to my post on the traumas of labour in the past 24 hours, so I thought I should make a post to say that the story had a happy ending, and despite a few hiccups (twatbastards obstinate Korean government people not wanting to put my name on a birth certificate, thus making my child an orphan if anything happens to my wife! They relented – rant averted!) all is good in the Ranting household!
