As Weeks Go….
Well, that was a week I’ll never forget…
Last Saturday, I went out clubbing and drinking with my American colleague Dwight, and I met this woman. We talked a lot (and a bit more!) and I escorted her home on the train as far as my stop. She didn’t seem the one-night-stand type, so I arranged to meet her another time – nothing fixed, just an exchange of phone numbers… To be honest here, I can’t be arsed reliving the entire thing, but I really wanted to hook up with this woman again, and, well, it didn’t happen, for whatever reason. I think, with hindsight, she perhaps was the one-night-stand type, and…..
Meh! Anyway, “I’ve had a little woman trouble this week” is the upshot of all that. Happens to everyone sometimes, and sometimes it’s happened to me where I’ve been ‘the trouble’, if you know what I mean. Dating, and meeting people can be hard, and you might get hurt, or you might hurt someone else…
Anyway, that was one thing…waiting around all week for her to call/answer my texts (two texts, in case you think I’m a stalker!), was extremely distracting…
On Thursday, my new i-pod touch and digital camera, which I had in the classroom because we were teaching English about technology – were stolen! I’d only had both of these for a few months. This was the very day after I’d repaid my previous school 420 000 Korean Won (about 220 quid/400 dollars) that they said they’d overpaid me. So I do a good deed and give them it back no questions asked, and I get ‘repaid’ by having my gear stolen.
How’s that for a week?!
I have a motto, in fact I have several, and one of them is ‘don’t get too pleased with yourself when it’s going well, and don’t get too down if it’s going badly’. Everything changes…
I’ll leave you with a quote from Hamlet, not because I’m trying to sound clever and well-read, but because it’s a famous quote and it fits my week exactly…
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” (Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5).
sounds like you had a really shite time of it Paul. I was amazed your last school had the balls to ask for overpaid wages, next time i would say what wages? sometimes being honest doesnt always work out you know the karma thing. I'm even more amazed at those thieving wee buggers in your school. When you said the school was telling you to keep your trap shut about involving the police thats borderline criminal in itself.
ReplyDeleteI hope you can consol yourself with two things here...the girl well, i wouldnt worry about that. There are many more decent girls in this country than scotland they are worth getting to know Even learning a wee bit of korean would be my advice on that front. Theyll be impressed and take to you more freely from the get go.
The stuff that got stolen...can be replaced..unfortunately at your expense...your cup final memories three weeks ago can't savour them...and use them to put last week behind you.
take care mate