H...hey guys. Been a while hasn't it? Surprise surprise, I've been busy again so I forgot to keep the blog updated. I'll get to that now though. Right after this post, I'm going to start up my football predictions as Orion kind of made me feel like it would be fun to do that again. But first I should get you caught up with things that have happened since...October? Yikes. Oh and before I begin, happy 2015 everyone!
Work:
Work has been really good. November and December got CRAZY busy with me at times going the full week without playing any games. It got kind of annoying, being that I was always either at work, dating, or sleeping. I enjoy all of those things, but I do enjoy time for myself from time to time. Now that the semester has ended, life has improved drastically. I've been able to sneak away some much needed time to myself to do this and that and it's been nice.
The school year ended pretty neatly and I feel like Brandon and I did a good job this whole year. My students this year improved much more than the ones last year. I feel like I'm starting to get good at this job. And in some happy news, Brandon decided to stay next year. Our boss was happy to have him back (as was I) and in fact was so happy that he was able to make a few demands. Because of him, we're going to have a much more favorable weekend work schedule next year. Unfortunately that means my high-paying Saturday classes are going to be gone, but I'll be happy to have my weekends back at any rate. Additionally, Brandon secured a promise to teach our same students again next year. This will really be great because we'll know exactly what to teach them. I really like this class of students and I'm excited to make sure they get really great scores on the Korean SAT in a couple years. I'm excited for next year, because I know I'll have a good partner next year. The downside is Brandon is almost definitely leaving after next year, so after that I'll be "on my own" with some new partner unless I can convince him to stay another year. Either way, I'll only be here for two more years I think. Once my students graduate, I want to go with them. What I do after that depends on where my relationship is. If I'm still dating this girl, I'll move closer to her. If not, I'd probably think hard about bothering to stay in Korea. I really like being here, but I'd be happy to be back in the states too. It just depends how my life here goes.
Dating:
Dating is going pretty well. At this point we're working hard at learning how to be in a successful relationship and it's going pretty good. We see each other every weekend and do lots of stuff. Recently, I've been starting to save money in planning for moving out next school year. It'll be nice when I'm on my own and can actually have visitors without getting in trouble.
Gaming:
Brandon finally hit level 30 and he's been getting better at League. Next season I might hit ranked with him. My smurf is level 30 also, so I might play with him on that. I don't know how good he is exactly yet but he's pretty smart and thinks of good builds by himself. Also he seems to understand why recommendations are good on champions and he has a good knowledge of what he SHOULD do in games (the mechanics will follow soon I'm sure) so I feel like he should get at least silver. I secretly think high silver, but I didn't want to get his hopes up, so I just told him silver for now. I'm interested to see how good he becomes! In the meantime, I guess since October 31st was the last time I posted, I should mention I successfully ended the season in Gold. No decay happened and no punishment (wasn't expecting any though). It's a nice feeling to have that gold reward and gold banner on my loading screen.
Other things:
As I've said, my free time these past few months has pretty much been nonexistant. I have however spent a lot of time going to Korean class. That class is getting really stressful because I'm falling behind in it. I just don't have time to study like everyone else. Everyone else has a maybe 20 minute commute to class. That alone gives them a lot of time to study the material we cover in class. I however maintain my 1.5 hour commute time (that's one way) so I piss away a lot of time just riding the subway. I would study hard on the subway, but its nearly impossible between all the noise and the lack of space. Plus that's when I need to catch up on sleep which I'm missing out on because of the Korean class. Until now the teacher has been sensitive to my plight, but I think he's wearing thin on that and I can't say I blame him. I feel like the rest of the class is far ahead of me and I have a lot of catching up to do. Last year when I went home, I was able to skip a month with no trouble, but that was a different teacher. This time around, my current teacher said he would have to re-test me to make sure I learned all the material when I come back. I know I can study what we will learn this month, but I just know he wants to test me on other random stuff we learned months ago too. I'll be bummed if I can't rejoin the class because I've been in that class the longest (15 months straight). The longest anyone else has been there is the other American guy (9 months). After that, everyone has been there either 1 or 2 months. Of course seniority is no reason to keep me if I'm falling behind and I understand if I get kicked out. I've honestly been feeling burned out on that class recently and I feel like I have a good amount of stuff I could study really easily on my own to get caught up, so if I get kicked out, I think I'll consider dropping that class, the cost, and the 20 hours a week that I spend on it (of that 20 hours, 6 (yes, a mere 6) are actual class time and the rest are my commute and a little bit of homework).
In other news, the cat is doing well. I got her fixed recently and she actually had to get surgery a second time because she took off her cone of shame while I was at work and licked up the surgery site and it got filled with pus. She's doing okay now though. And when I say she, I'm not exactly sure what to say. I just found out this weekend that she has both ovaries (which we knew about since they took those out) and testicles (which turn out to be exactly what I thought they were). I was a little surprised because that means I was right on that day I first brought her home and assumed she was a boy. So I guess it turns out my cat is a hermaphrodite. Just an interesting thing I guess. It won't change much in the long run because soon she'll have neither set of parts but she'll be my sweet little kitty no matter what~~~. I guess I need to figure out what gender to refer to her as. I'll ask the vet next time I'm there.
One last thing before I stop, I'll be coming home soon. Looks like sometime next week. I'm shooting for around the 14-16th until sometime at the end of the month. Expect it!!!
Until I see (some of) y'all in person, peace out! I'll get going on that football post now.
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