Another wall to climb....

SOooo behind again, I know. I started bringing my computer to school because in the evenings I have classes where the kids are just coming up to me to recite passages they have to memorize. Or they're done, and I tell them to at least speak English but when they're my favorite class, I end up laughing with them anyway. Still this was the ideal time to get some blogging done, since my breaks are either spent working on these schedules that were supposed to be finished at the beginning of September, or typing out vocab tests for one class with the English AND Korea-- I am 1-finger typing so it's tiring and takes a lot of time, but the Korean teachers are impressed as hell and I'm proud of myself for doing it too. Thank God I at least know a good bit of Hangul (as in reading & some writing-- I know the characters, can recognize them on the keyboard, and learned how to get the special characters). Sadly, I can't do that on my laptop because the school's computers have Korean/English keyboards, so that's just a bit easier than having to use some online, which still never seemed to have the ch- sounding character.

The main issue now is that my rosacea has gotten much worse. Not only are the pimple-like ones around my mouth not going away, but now the skin on either side of my nostrils is red and under my eyes has little pink bumps. Expats post that their skin hates Korea, and that is no fucking joke. The borax-hydrogen peroxide mask I was using in the US that worked like a charm has zero effect here. So this means going to a dermatologist.

Fortunately I mentioned this to Danielle (whom I hadn't seen in forever, but spent a lovely Sunday with her, her husband, cute little Leah & also got to meet Danielle's mom, who's in Korea visiting for about 2 months), and thank God I did, because she told me most dermatologists here aren't medical doctors, so instead of going to the hundreds/thousands of dermatology clinics here (which focus on cosmetic stuff, particularly skin whitening, because yeah, SUCH an Asian thing), you have to look at actual medical clinics.

Luckily I checked out a couple some other expats mentioned, and those searches brought me to the normally-ruled-by-trolls waygook.org expat site (it's seriously just assholes all day every day, it's a completely worthless site usually), but one person mentioned a clinic with a doctor who graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School and speaks perfect English, and all the expats go to see him. So I'm going to see when I can get into see him.

Interestingly, it mentions on the site that in addition to internal and some external treatments, they also use something called fotofacials and chemical peels. I find it funny that I was like, how is a chemical peel going to help an inflammation problem, when I've been rubbing 19th-century laundry detergent and hydrogen peroxide on my skin, leaving it on for 10 minutes then rinsing off twice a day every day.

Anyway, you can call or email for an appointment, so I guess I'll send it off tomorrow, unless I take the chance and try to call, after mastering, "Do you speak English?" in Korean, and see when I can get in.

Other than that, I had a software download for my iPhone, and it was a rather big one. You know how they say on the iPhone 7 you don't swipe, you press the home key to unlock the phone? Now that's what mine does. It's taking some getting used to, but it's keeping me on my toes.