Friday, May 29--Day 5

I didn't report on days 2-4 because nothing exciting happened. Turns out when you're not allowed to leave the city, there isn't much to do. I think I'm actually getting too much sleep. Our school felt sorry for us so they scheduled a trip to Busan. Here are the highlights...

They rented a bus for us to travel away from the general public. A couple Korean staff traveled with us, so if parents ask they can say we were always under supervision.


We went to the beach. They were having a sand sculpture festival. I think every kindergarten and day care was at the beach with us. There was a whole class washing their hands in the bathroom. Rachael and I went in and received a lot of stares. I saw little feet in front of my door. I followed them up and realized a little girl was staring at me through the crack in the door. I guess it is okay for her to be curious since she is only four, right?




We also went to the Busan Aquarium. Rachael, Alpha and I all have new cameras. We spent forever testing out different settings. I took over 100 pictures in under an hour. I like my jellyfish pictures the best.


As we were leaving the aquarium, we saw a sign for Dairy Queen. We got really excited, but as you can see from the next picture it was just false advertisement.


And finally we returned home...and got our temperature checked. Just a normal day in the life of a few "at home" quarantined teachers.

Monday, May 25--Day 1

Just staying safe in public...

I'm no good at secrets.

And this one I have to keep from the Korean press. Don't tell!

This week my unnamed academy was supposed to get two new teachers. They were going to arrive on Friday, but they never showed. Last night they seemed to be scrambling for teachers all over my company's unnamed academy (not just in Daegu). Today I showed up and was told there was an "emergency." All of the Korean staff were on the phones. No one would tell us anything though. Then, I got a text message from Jennifer asking if our classes has been canceled also.
Today is supposed to be the first day of the summer term. We had a meeting at 2:45 to discuss the new term policies. Instead, we discussed swine flu. Apparently, one of the new CDI trainees--from Canada, not US--started showing symptoms of the swine flu while in training. She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with it. All 68 people in training with her were quarantined. It has been in the news that a CDI teacher brought the swine flu to Korea. So to show our "solidarity and safety to the students" all CDIs are canceled for EIGHT days. I get an EIGHT day vacation. I never even get a two day weekend!
We are not sure what we are going to do with the days yet, but I am so excited!

I will forever regret...

...not filming Becca after she had her jaw surgery. I could have had a great Youtube hit like this one.