October's final week has blessed me with another terrible cold, so I've been mentally crashing right after work each day, hence the lack of posting. The weather is turning colder, and it's taking a toll. Last week Brianna spent a few days in the hospital with the flu - it's all these Korean viruses that our Canadian bodies aren't used to battling. Hopefully my immune system will get with the program soon.
That said, Korean winter has its benefits, most importantly the much-anticipated end of mosquito season. I couldn't be happier. You haven't experienced mosquitoes until you've experienced Korean mosquitoes. They're a different breed.
Korean mosquitoes are faster, smarter, and more vindictive than their international relatives. At first I took it personally, wondering why Satan's insects kept picking on me. I quickly realized that wasn't the case, and I wasn't being singled out. Korean mosquitoes are equal-opportunity attackers: anything with a pulse is fair game.
Aside from the season change, this week has pretty much been business-as-usual. Tomorrow is the school's big Halloween party. I spent over an hour this afternoon helping transform one of the classrooms into a haunted house, apparently Sally does this every year. She forces the children to enter one at a time, while she blasts horror music and hides in the pitch black centre of the room, only to jump out and scare each individual child to the point of emotional scarring. I've been told that many leave in tears.
Sally is very excited for tomorrow. She refers to Halloween as 'her revenge'.
I'll take pictures.
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