Not too much to report for this week. We had our Halloween Party at school on Friday. All of us teachers stayed late on Thursday to decorate, and then got there early and stayed late on Friday as well. We make the school like a haunted house that the kids had to walk through, and then they watched a movie and got to take pictures in costumes. The kids went 'trick or treating' from teacher to teacher, and they also got to make Dulkbolkkii (rice cakes in spicy sauce). Portia and I were in charge of the pictures with the costumes. So, we would have kids come in waves, and then had downtime between. During our downtime we played a mean game of balloon volleyball. Guess who won? ;) We all had a lot of fun, as you can tell from the pictures.
This is Olivia and Ji Sue getting ready to hand out candy.
A bunch of the boys really got into the pictures!
Portia and I waiting for more kids to come.
Friday, after school and after tearing down most of the stuff from the party, Kenny (the director) made me go to the doctor with Sunny. Sunny is my team teacher who is a native Korean. She speaks pretty good English, so she translated for me. The doctor is basically across the street from the school, so not far at all. Kenny had Sunny try to use his wife's ID number so I could been seen for a cheaper price. The doctor said no, so I was seen at the full price, a whopping 14,700 won. That is approximately $12.39 in American money. She said that my tonsillitis/throat infection is still going strong, and so is the sinus infection. She said my sinuses are blocked preventing the bacteria and mucus to escape, making the infection linger. She sprayed some kind of gas down my throat and up my nose while she was examining me. A rather odd and bitter sensation, but that's ok. She prescribed 6 different regular medicine pills and a crazy kind of herbal liquid in packets. The prescriptions cost 18,171 won, which in America would be about $15.32. My body, as most of you know, does NOT handle chemicals well at all... so I asked the pharmacist which one was the antibiotic, and decided to only take that at least for the first day. I took all of them on Saturday (today) and have felt a bit inebriated. We'll see how Church goes on Sunday, and classes go on Monday. Hopefully I'll be good as new by Tuesday. I was feeling better by the late afternoon/evening on Friday (around midnight or 1am on Thursday night/Friday morning back home), before I even went to the doctor, so thanks for all the prayers. I felt them for sure. I have just been laying around the apartment all weekend, crocheting and watching movies. Trying to rest so I can finally stop being sick after 5+ weeks.
BTW, I think something happened to George. I haven't seen him in a week and a half or so. Please be praying for him. Thanks!
Keep pressing on towards the goal.
Karis and Irini,
Mandolyn
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