It was hot and I was thirsty. I would like to write about a chimpanzee's sense of fun and the quote of Marcus Aurelius but I am down to the fifteen minute mark for the weekend engagement prompt.
I have been too busy. I got up this morning on the wrong side of the world. Mondays are like this. It's like you are on top of the world on Sunday and then Monday morning someone is shouting, "GOOD MORNING!!"
Our son goes to an all Korean school except for him and we found out he has been bullied the past semester. Ever since his midterm results came out and a kid found out that my son's scores were lower than his the kid with a low self esteem tried to make himself better by picking on my son. My son is taller than him and bigger, but too nice.
Last night my son told me the whole story about how the kid came up behind him and jump kicked him. He said the other kids heard the baam and a couple kids saw it. Mostly he only attacked when no one was around so there would be few witnesses.
Today they were brought for investigation, but the stupid school board interviewed them together. Of course he is going to agree with everything the bully says. He is only twelve years old. The bully comes up with the story that he was only practicing martial arts and my son just happened to block the path. The school board agrees with the boy because he lost his mother. That is a tragic story but it doesn't make it right to bully other kids.
Anyway it was a bad hair day and nothing really works at work today. I am supposed to register for some training course but my ID doesn't work because my phone cannot be verified because I am a foreigner. The Superintendent of Seoul schools has a plan to hire more foreigners to teach English, but he doesn't want to raise their pay. After twenty years it's been the same. I'm not sure how he wants to get the teachers to come here and make minimum wage. One of the plans is to lower the requirements to become a teacher here to keep the pay scale low. I don't think that's a good idea.
Nothing is working so of course my hair doesn't work. I'm just glad I wasn't one of those people stuck in the flood. Mostly my hair is messed up because I wore a helmet and sweat a lot.
I did have a good cup of Chai at a Tibet cafe.
Luv
