So, now there’s finally a new entry. Yesterday I got to know that I had to take another health record, from a Korean doctor – the international health certificate from our lovely public health officer in Greifswald wasn’t sufficient anyway, even though it was issued in English.
Otherwise all the other required documents are accepted – the criminal record with apostille (aaaah…) has arrived yesterday from Germany and the lawyer had negotiatet that we don’t need any University lecture transcripts any longer. For me, these would have been the only missing thing and damned me to work off the books because they would have been almost impossible to get from here.
So I went to Korean University Hospital with Tina today. It was so nice from here; without any knowledge of Korean it would have been difficult for me. And she already knew the procedure – and staffs there recognized her at once. I was so lucky – instead of expected two or thee hours everything didn’t take longer than fifteen minutes:
measuring height, size and blood pressure, testing view, paying 96.000 won, x-raying lungs, giving urine sample – and, kept for the end – taking blood. And the latter went like clockwork… Taking a number and then a seat at a long office-kind-of-table with five chairs (à la assembly line or like in an Italian post or bank office), putting the arm on it, and in a jiffy, getting up again. And out!
Drinking a fresh squeezed strawberry juice and strolling across Korean University’s campus… After my last test in Greifswald, only two weeks ago, I had almost fainted because of my cold, stress and the heat, I was quite apprehensive – and when I then hadn’t even seen a couch in the room, oh dear…! But I was soooo brave ;o)
On Tuesday I will get my results and I hope they won’t me consider being to tall for being allowed to work in Korea nor find anything serious in all these tests…
The juice booth which Tina had shown me was THE discovery – there you can get a wonderful refreshing mix from any kinds of fruits and ice for only 1000 won (!)and without any stomach trouble. I’m a little sceptic about things like that… But from now on I will go there every day – it’s just around the corner, beside the subway station.
Tina also showed me the campus, how impressive it is – next time I will take pictures there. After having eaten in the students dining hall (me: squid soup, hmmm!) we went back home. I prepared my class, went to work and had a nice evening with my class. Suddenly, in the first break, they came up with many different kinds of cake and now on day four I had the feeling that the atmosphere among people had unclenched a lot.
So we stroke up a conversation during the second break and my curiousness („Why do you learn German?“, “Do you plan to go to Germany?”) was rewarded with counterquestions like “Why did you come to Korea?”, “Oh, you’ve been to China – do you speak Chinese?” and they really made me say a sentence ;o)
I’d be glad to continue to teach these guys – temporarily this is only the pre-course which will be finished already by tomorrow.
Otherwise all the other required documents are accepted – the criminal record with apostille (aaaah…) has arrived yesterday from Germany and the lawyer had negotiatet that we don’t need any University lecture transcripts any longer. For me, these would have been the only missing thing and damned me to work off the books because they would have been almost impossible to get from here.
So I went to Korean University Hospital with Tina today. It was so nice from here; without any knowledge of Korean it would have been difficult for me. And she already knew the procedure – and staffs there recognized her at once. I was so lucky – instead of expected two or thee hours everything didn’t take longer than fifteen minutes:
measuring height, size and blood pressure, testing view, paying 96.000 won, x-raying lungs, giving urine sample – and, kept for the end – taking blood. And the latter went like clockwork… Taking a number and then a seat at a long office-kind-of-table with five chairs (à la assembly line or like in an Italian post or bank office), putting the arm on it, and in a jiffy, getting up again. And out!
Drinking a fresh squeezed strawberry juice and strolling across Korean University’s campus… After my last test in Greifswald, only two weeks ago, I had almost fainted because of my cold, stress and the heat, I was quite apprehensive – and when I then hadn’t even seen a couch in the room, oh dear…! But I was soooo brave ;o)
On Tuesday I will get my results and I hope they won’t me consider being to tall for being allowed to work in Korea nor find anything serious in all these tests…
The juice booth which Tina had shown me was THE discovery – there you can get a wonderful refreshing mix from any kinds of fruits and ice for only 1000 won (!)and without any stomach trouble. I’m a little sceptic about things like that… But from now on I will go there every day – it’s just around the corner, beside the subway station.
Tina also showed me the campus, how impressive it is – next time I will take pictures there. After having eaten in the students dining hall (me: squid soup, hmmm!) we went back home. I prepared my class, went to work and had a nice evening with my class. Suddenly, in the first break, they came up with many different kinds of cake and now on day four I had the feeling that the atmosphere among people had unclenched a lot.
So we stroke up a conversation during the second break and my curiousness („Why do you learn German?“, “Do you plan to go to Germany?”) was rewarded with counterquestions like “Why did you come to Korea?”, “Oh, you’ve been to China – do you speak Chinese?” and they really made me say a sentence ;o)
I’d be glad to continue to teach these guys – temporarily this is only the pre-course which will be finished already by tomorrow.
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