First of all, I am sick. It started last Saturday morning when I woke up to start moving my luggage downstairs to the 7th floor. The management office had only told me the night before that I was moving rooms, so I had decided to stay up late to pack and had to wake up early to move everything downstairs. I woke up feeling really, really dizzy and feverish, and after I'd moved everything into the room I crashed onto my bed and slept for the whole day. I was getting better on Sunday, and by Monday I was totally fine. Except for my voice, which started deteriorating. By Tuesday, I had no voice whatsoever. I didn't think much of it until last night, when my voice wasn't getting better and my throat was starting to hurt. So I went to the hospital today and they gave me some medicine. Now I feel much much better.
Second of all, I'm pretty happy to say that so far I have left my room at least once a day for each of those four days for non-medical reasons. Generally I'm a bit of a hermit in Adelaide and I can stay inside my room for days and days, but why would I do that when I only have a few more weeks left in Seoul? Every time I don't feel like going out I remind myself "Esther. You are not in Adelaide. You are in Seoul. Go DO something." So on Monday I went to Kyobo, one of Seoul's biggest bookstores, by myself and shopped around. Tuesday was a birthday party for the pastor of my church, who left today for a vacation in the US. Yesterday the only time I went out was for a long walk across the bridge over the river - and yes, that does count as going out. Today I went out to Yongsan with a friend to look around, as a 'reward' for our wonderful grades.
Speaking of which, I am very proud to say that I recieved straight A's (3 A+'s, 2 A's) for my final results!!! I'm not really a straight A person - honestly, I'm more of a A and B person - so this was really exciting for me. I have a funny feeling that I got these grades because I was a foreigner, but either way....they're still there no matter what the reason. Kkya!
