3rd Month
So I have been told that right before and throughout your third month of teaching abroad... you enter the "I hate everything stage". I think I am now fully there. It is nothing to do with anything or anyone... but I think that the rose-colored glasses have now come off and I am seeing and feeling some things that I didnt before.
Currently I am pretty exhausted and have some problems at work... so that is only adding to my frustration and the "I hate everything" stage. Oh well!
I think that this weekend I don't want to do much. Perhaps if I catch up on some missed sleep and things resolve with our contract talks... I will enter the yay Korea stage again.
Until then... I am keeping my head low and trying not to attract too much attention to me and my tired, sunken and black eyes.
(Sidenote: I have this terrible pain in and under my left eye. It hurts to blink... hurts to move my eye.... it just hurts. I thought that it was perhaps due to the fact that I didnt sleep for more than 20 minutes last night... but after a 6 hour nap... the pain is still there. If it still hurts like this on Saturday... I may make my way to the International Dr's office in Itaewon... but hopefully it wont come to that!)
posted by Chelsea-Anne at 7:21 PM
3 Comments:
Chelse,
When I was feeling low in my first year of University (my version of I hate everything stage) it helped me alot to correspond by mail. I don't know why, but it just worked. Maybe getting that fustration out on paper, having it sealed, and mailed away. And I knew the person to which I was corresponding with would not judge my "I hate everything" attitude, but sympathize. So maybe instead of just sleeping it off, write it out. Just a suggestion.
Kim
PS you're eye thing could be a sty (pimple in the eyelid - ouch.)
11:40 PM
kid remember you have friends here in korea, if you need to yell, we will understand. Been their, done that and have the t-shirt to prove it. c u friday
11:45 PM
You're in an "I hate everything" stage and I'm in a "I'm sick of everything" stage. What a pair we make!
I think Kim's suggestion (about corresponding my mail) is really good. I do that all the time, and although it doesn't make everything immediately better, it does help sending the letters out.
9:40 PM
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