"Where in the World"

My last Day in Korea

My last day at school was probably the best I've had since I worked there. It even made think that doing the full 12 months wouldn't have been so bad, but my desire to travel quickly spwet this from my mind.

I spent the day saying goodbye to the kids, taking photo's and occasionally teaching a lesson. I recieved so many gifts which inluded notebooks, pens, soap (a traditional Korean gift) a mug and from the teachers a beautiful box of toiletries. I had already sent my boxes home and was leaving at 6.30am the following day so would have no time to go to the post office. I shoved as much as I could into my already over stuffed bag and unfortunatly left all the rest there.

My favourite class of the day was ''Get it Right 3'' (Sophia's class), I was told to close my eyes and was led into a classroom where all the lights had been turned off. When I walked in the lights went on and everyone jumped up shouting suprise. There were balloons everywhere and they had covered the white board in messages of fairwell.

There were snacks and drink and after a few pictures Sophia left me to it. As you can imagine balloon fights errupted crips and drink went everywhere but it was my last day so there was no way I was going to try and keep control over them.

After I finished my classes I went and said goodbye to th staf that were still around, it was hardest saying goodbye to Sophia. Since Jenna had gone we spent a lot of time together and went she started tearing up I said a quick goodbye and left. A few minutes later her and Alice caught up with me and offered me a lift to the airport at 6.30 am the following morning.

Joshua had gone for his weekly visit to Heongday and dragged Peter along which was fine with me because it gave me the house to myself to finish any packing. I stayed up and watched the last Americas next top model (a friday night ritual of mine and Jenna's) and then called family and friends to say goodbye not knowing when I would next get to a computer or a phone.

By the time I finished it was 3.30 am and I had 2 hours before I had to get up. I did contemplate pulling an all nighter but thought I better get a few hours of sleep and sleep the rest on the plane.

• Posted by k_millington on 14/07/2007.
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