Well, first the good news! I passed all my mid-terms with over 95% in all of them. The speaking exam turned out to be the far most challenging out of them all, though. While they didn’t ask you anything new or even challenging in the written ones, they seem to expect that you have learned additional spoken Korean outside of the classroom, and will throw vocabulary and expression not covered during class time at you (not so much that you could fail if you only knew the class-words and expressions by heart, but enough that you could only get a passing grade if you had never once used Korean outside of the classroom). A-ha! So this is where they’ve been hiding their difficulty! Luckily, I have used it quite a bit in my free time so the speaking exam was easy as well.

In not so-great-news, I am damn sick. I’ve caught one-sided tonsillitis, and my left tonsil is about twice to 2.5 times the size of my right, uninfected one. In addition to that, my left tonsil shows fashionable white spots, and causes me to wince in pain when I swallow even just saliva. Oh, the joy of tonsillitis! A good friend and frequent visitor in my childhood whose visits have become increasingly rare with my ascension to adulthood has finally found its way back to find me once more….!

And they told me I wouldn’t have to worry about tonsillitis anymore once I became an adult.  -_-

I’m in the very strange situation that I usually can’t sleep during the night at all. I tend to have a high fever during the night, and instead of sleeping, I’ll have restless fever hallucinations and my thoughts are just stumbling over each other and bumping into each other like a bunch of intoxicated amusement park go-karters. They go something like this:

“I should go to the pharmacy tomorrow…”

- “The girl had green hair and a horn on her forehead.”

- “Maybe the elevator in the building is on fire.”

- “Then she saw him and smiled.”

- “Asterix and Obelix are running a marathon!”

- “Yes, I should go to the pharmacy.”

- “And the flying soju bottle with the freckles winked at me.”

- “Then she walked over to him and said hi. Is that a good idea?”

- “Yes, I think I should definitely go to the pharmacy!”

As you can see, they didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I hate fever hallucinations.

I’m not sure where I caught tonsillitis, but I think I may have last Friday when I went out to Hana and met some of my friends there. It was a good night (I got a bit too drunk, though). Some Korean girls were marvelling over my big breasts and asked me if they could touch them. I said sure. Then they poked it with their fingers and oohed and aahed about how soft they were. It was funny.