Happiness comes and goes in the blink of an eye

My eyes ache. Last night Neil and I took John the new teacher out for dinner, then on to OBS for a few drinks. Lucy, and then Neil’s wife met us there. I am really proud of myself. I only had three drinks and I went home early. Despite my willpower I am still out of it today. Teaching all day Saturday is enough to make anyone stop drinking early on a Friday night.

Tonight I am heading to PNU to hang out with Stacey and the usual crowd. I think my new coworker may tag along as well. I can’t drink too much because I have plans with Chelsey tomorrow and I don’t want to be hung over.

On Thursday I bought my plane tickets. The realization that I am really leaving Korea has sunk in. Before I felt like it was some distant, distant dream. I have roughly six weeks of teaching left. Teaching will be so easy for me. I won’t have that sense of pending doom hanging over my head at the beginning of each work week. Now I can relax and have fun because I am not going to be here for ever.

A few of my students even noticed that I have been happier these last few days. It’s funny because I didn’t realize that students pay that much attention to us. The student said, “Teacher, why are you so happy?” After the look of shock on my face subsided, I had to laugh. We really do show our emotions on our sleeves. Kids are not stupid. They can tell when we are happy or angry.

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