There's my friend Laura, me, my friend Jerome, some Korean dood that was being nice to Jerome. Laura and I are drinking this cool rice alcohol drink called makoli. Jerome had already finished his. Notice the umbrellas:
Korean baseball is cool. The stadium was quite small. In America they name the stadiums after corporations, but in Korea they name the teams after them. And there are cheerleaders too. This game was Samsung vs Kia:
The Lions (Samsung) vs the Tigers (Kia). The Lions were victorious, thanks to an eight inning 2-run homer.
I'm stressing the point of the umbrellas because it started lightly raining in about the 4th inning, which caused most of the crowd to skee-daddle, but we were like "aw what the heck". So after the game was over we spent a little more time in the rain, making our way over to a bar, then making our way home. The next day I had had some plans to go on a day trip to a nearby city, Gyeongju, but I woke up at 4:30 AM with a headache and a fever like no other, so I called in sick to that experience.
All I could think about all day was sleep, my bed, my body aches, and acetaminophen. Through my years of sickness I have discovered that acetaminophen works on me better than anything else. Once, while in the hospital, I discovered tylenol with codeine and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I am aware of the liver dangers from acetaminophen, though, and my answer is: "What about the sharks in the ocean?"
I talk to my co-teacher at the Waegwan Middle School yesterday (Sunday) and explain to him that I am too sick to go to school today (Monday). He offers to take me to the doctor. I have my insurance card so I'm all yeah bring it on yo, I mean my good friend Micah just got an x-ray of his foot and a doctor's evaluation the other day, and it only cost him 5000 won. 5000 won!!!
The doctor listens to my lungs and depresses my tongue and takes a look in there and determines that I have a common cold, and sends me into the other room to get an injection. Micah had told me about this shot, this adrenaline shot, so I was mentally prepared. The lady gave it to me in my left buttcheek and it was funny. Right when I got the shot, though, I felt a weirdness in my stomach. It was similar to this feeling that I got when I was put under when I got eye surgery last year. So I pay the 5000 won and go next door to get my medicine. I'm getting sweatier by the minute and I don't like it. Then we get in the car to go back to my house, and my co-teacher says "I think you look pale", and I faked a smile but then I started swallowing a lot and realized that I was going to lose it. So I leaned out the window of the car and just like that, as my co-teacher was hitting my back slightly, I proceeded to, well you know. Right there in front of Dream Mart, my students probably saw me. It was totally whatever injection they gave me at the doctor. I felt fine afterward.
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