just another American teacher in SK

I FINALLY HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION IN MY HOME!! 

OMG ~ email, Google, PC television!!   I don’t care what it is, as long as it is in English. 

I can watch global television news (!!!!)  for the first time in weeks, live US television (Letterman! Jon Stewart!), International channels (Al-Zawraa!!  Bundesliga!!), and listen to hometown radio (FM107.1) ~ AND, of course, I can blog in the privacy of my own humble abode.  

I no longer have to write while I’m at work or haul my fat ass down to the PC Bang.  I don’t have to deal with the “hovercraft”(the people who love to listen to English and read what I’m typing).  I can have a private Skype conversation!  Having internet at home is so remarkably liberating.

re:  PHOTOS ~ I have been taking photos, but I haven’t posted them, because I wasn’t sure where they would end up ~ on the school network (heaven forbid), on YouTube, in orbit …. god only knows.  I’ll establish a web album ~ watch for it! 

re: home internet ~ “Basic installation” involved two days of maneuvering through the building cables, negotiating with my neighbors for access to the shared control panels, establishing a wired connection ~ the installation man was bummed out when he realized it must be in English.   Ct1 took time off from work to “help” (actually, she did ALL the work for me, so I should really just shut up …) and by the time I got home from school today, it was almost completed.  

BTW ~ I don’t want to hear any more complaints about “the cable guy” ever again ….  It’s 10pm ~ and I am connected.   Alleluhiah. 

Annyong-hi kashipshio!  (sorry!)  I won’t have time to blog tonight ~ I have to watch the news ……

I’m debating about going to work tomorrow ….  just kidding …

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