Two Country's Celebrate in One Week

Well it seems as though I am one post behind, so here comes the post covering the week of June 29 - July 5.
This week was quiet like the two before it. We were still in holding and just organizing things for our summer intensive period. On top of that I was still dealing with organizing our trip to Jeju and getting flak from those who had not been asked to go. Bu that's a whole other story to which I would get sorted later in the week. The first few days went by well and then on Wednesday it was Canada Day. Knowing some of the teachers at the elementary school that are Canadians too, we planned on a get together after work that night to celebrate a little.
We met up around my place and preceded to have some beers. That's when I found out that some of the people at the elementary school had never heard about the plans to go to Jeju and expressed great interest in going. So after our beers we all went home and I looked up some available flights for those who wanted to go. The next day I contacted them and got final numbers for the second time and booked tickets for them to go to Jeju with us.
It wasn't 45 minutes after i booked the tickets that two of the people at the elementary school were fired and quit respectively. They were brother and sister the brother being the head teacher. It turned out that there has been a lot of anger at their school over the Swine Flu policies our school has, which are ridiculous, and break the countries labour laws. So, in trying to get things sorted out the school got angry at Brett and then fired him. Hearing that his sister Hayley quit. This meant that they called me and asked if it was too late, to which I said yes but said we would work it out.
On Friday it almost seemed as though things were going to clear themselves up because the school, knowing they had screwed themselves in a big way, asked the two of them to consider staying but without the head teacher role. This seemed like a good idea and when I heard of it Friday night I tried to make them see how it was a good idea to stay, but it wasn't until the next week that the official meeting was going to be held.
Friday night we all, elementary friends and middle school friends, went to Sincheon to have drinks at one of our favorite spots called Gold Bar. We went there because it is cheap and because David and Brady who were leaving soon wanted to go there one last time. We had drinks and hungout until pretty late before heading home to get some rest for a busy Saturday.
On Saturday I got up around noon to get ready to go meet another person I am going to tutor. She is the sister of one of the Korean teachers at the middle school, who wants to practice her conversational English with a foreigner. We met at Olympic park at 1 o'clock and talked and walked for about two hours. After that I headed over towards Cheonho because we had a July 4th barbecue by the river planned for all the Americans we work with. Unfortunatley it looked like rain so we had to cancel. Canceling actually gave me more time to get a few things done before going to Itaewon to meet some of the teachers at the Nokchiwon for a Chinese food dinner. It was a pretty good place and we all had a good time. While in Itaewon I actually had time to look around and buy a travelers back pack for our trip to Jeju and hopefully for my trip when my contract here is up.
After Itaewon I headed further away from home to meet up in Sinchon, different from Sincheon, at a hookah bar for a send off party and July 4th party. We filled a little back alley bar until around 330 am when we left to get 4 am McDonald's breakfast and come home. It was a great night and I slept good when I got home.
Sunday was a do nothing day as usual. I met up with Alex and our Korean teacher for a quick Korean lesson and just to get out of the house. After that Alex and I met up with Margaret and Hayley for some dinner then went and got groceries before calling it a night.
Next post will be coming right up.