Okay. Anyone who thought it would only be a matter of a few days before I was back to wanting to KILL Mrs Lee - raise your hands now. You get a cookie. Because after the last 20 hours, I am a little ticked.

Okay, so the week's gone smoothly enough as y'can see from the last few entries. After my chirpy entries of yesterday morning/afternoon, things went rapidly downhill. See, Mrs Lee forgot to pay one of the other teachers her salary yesterday - [which was payday] - she said she forgot. A) Amy has now been working for her for nearly 2 months and this is the second payday to pass since then. Amy has not been paid yet, period. B) Mrs Lee said she "forgot". C) This is the latest in a long line of broken promises and bullshit Mrs Lee has been feeding the other teachers and they've just about had enough of it. So we all have a huuuuuuge discussion, and then Celine and Amy [[remember all the Korean girls I work with have English names at work.]] vanish into one of the classrooms, and call Mrs Lee. 3/4 of an hour later, Amy comes out looking pissed and we can hear Celine shouting / crying down the phone. There's been lots of shouting. Half an hour after that, Celine comes out - she's composed herself but is still WAY upset. I'm about ready to kill right then 'cause Celine is possibly THE most gentle soul on the planet. There is not one child in the school who dislikes her, they all FLOCK around her when she walks anywhere. She's amazing, seriously. She's been with this place the longest and has really built it all up by herself - this woman puts in nearly 18-20 hour days sometimes, and she never gets a penny of overtime.

Anyway, tangent. So we're all pissy, so we decide to go out for a drink. Jane goes home 'cause by this time it's about 9:30pm. We get to a Scottish bar (!!! that made me LAUGH) called Glasgow and go in. Then Amy and Celine get calls from Mrs Lee - GET OVER HERE NOW AND GET YOUR PAY! so they go off >> and the rest of us attack the alcohol and some food [it's customary in bars here to order a side dish with alcohol and besides >> none of us have had anything to eat since 12noon]...so it takes them nearly 30 minutes and they come back - Amy's been paid, but she's also been officially WARNED about her position and told she should be THANKFUL to Mrs Lee because there are so many people unemployed - ....not to teach English, honey. There are jobs everywhere... and really, Mrs Lee is stretched as it is, there aren't enough of us to cope and she wants MORE students... that's another story. We also find out that Mrs Lee called Jane and asked what we were all talking about --- Jane told her we were all speaking in English so she couldn't understand XD ;) although we'd been speaking in both so she knew exactly XD. Love on her.

So we have another beer, and then I run off at half ten to go home and pick up some cash before meeting up with the ESLers.... to find both locks on my front door locked. I only ever lock one. I slitty eyed at it, thinking okay maybe I locked both this morning! and walked into the apt. ...All my windows? Open. I shut them that morning because of the downpour. I slitty eyed at them, too. And then started looking around. My things have been carefully gone through where it looks like it won't be noticed. My cds? The wrong one is on the top from the morning 'cause Atsushi was on top - I'd been listening to him. Now on top? Taebin. My bed? Remade a slightly different way. The books by the side of the bed? Knocked over from their usual size-ordered pile. Nothing is missing, but things are not the same.

The gas? Turned off. No central heating. No hot water.

I'm like >________________________________> .... then I'm like okay I have ten minutes whatever deal with it later. Change clothes, grab cash - which i had to search for as it wasn't in its usual place >_> but it was all there - and then run out the door and go to meet the other westerners.

I find Katy, and we go for to a quiet place to get to know each other before we go to meet the group. A beer and a plate of fruit later, I've told her everything that's happened to date - barring the latest apartment shit - and she is horrified. She was horrified anyway from the dribs I've told her, but either way. We also think that I'm being severely underpaid. I couldn't remember the numbers exactly from my contract, though, so I've held off on that until I have confirmation. So she says >> I'mm a ring John in the morning >_>... and I say mm. me too asap >_> and then we go off to meet the group. Here I'm required to relate most of it again - although snippets, not everything - and I get a whole bunch of helpful advice from the ladies and gents, including that it IS possible to move schools. I don't really WANT to 'cause the school is FANTASTIC... but Mrs Lee is WTF so >_> it's a hard call because I know the other Krn teachers REALLY need me there as they're so hardput anyway. I'll think on it more whenever I talk to John etc.etc.

Also, I meet - some guy from Portsmouth XD!! He asked where I was from and I said Southampton, and he hissed and playfully withdrew like >>.... they ALSO told me I should demand a refund for my hair and the kitchen stuff - which I'll be mentioning to John, never you worry.

So I left them there, and started off heading for the main road to get a taxi. Celine had loaned me her spare umbrella earlier in the day (when I decided to leave the bicycle at school over the weekend 'cause we were all going out for a drink) and so I was happy enough strolling along.

So happy, in fact, - or maybe just a little tipsy XD - that I didn't notice I'd walked home until I ended up... outside my front door. Well that saved me a few thousand won in taxi money! so I then toddled in, puttered around, decided an icy cold shower really was NOT worth it at 2:30am, and went to bed.

This morning my gas / heating was still not working, so I braved said icy cold shower. Yes, it was terrible. I'm sure you can imagine o.<

Then the postman brought things!!! So we now know the address I gave out is officially right because I now have my trax schtuff, chargers, and all that good stuff :) Thanks mum! <3 <3

And now I'm here. Chillin' like a villain before I go see Celine in a couple of hours.

Eesh.

Edit: I forgot to add: Celine asked Mrs Lee when my payday is .."I don't know yet. I'll tell you another time." and when I'll get some kind of phone line "when she gets her alien card and buys a phone I guess." Celine: so when she gets paid? Mrs Lee: Yup.