i officially have the flu. it's been three days now, and it's really no fun to be sick in a foreign country. but the flu has been going around the dorms here for about a week and i was bound to catch it sooner or later.
yesterday, i finally broke down and went to a pharmacy, the only place in korea that sells any sort of medication, over the counter or otherwise. after spending some time telling the old man behind the counter my ailments, he ended up giving me some pills and a little packet of powder that i'm supposed to mix with water and drink down... they've both been sittingon my desk for a day now, untouched. something about both of them seem a little shady to me. and apparently my brain wasn't fully functioning, so i forgot to ask if they would make me drowsy or any other directions i might need to know. but if i'm not feeling better by tonite, you better believe i'll be taking all of the medication down.
i also made $40 yesterday for pretty much doing nothing. when we got out of class, a friend of mine said he was going to record his voice and told me to come along, and having nothing better to do at the time, i did. apparently, lg, a huge company here in korea, wants to update all of their cell phones that they're selling in america. they want to make everything on the phone voice activated, so they need native english speakers to come in and read pages and pages of random numbers and phrases for voice recognition. so i spent yesterday afternoon talking into a microphone saying things like:
"dial *839-324-5436"
"call leroy at his pager"
"dial gonzalez at his office"
"89z-3450-2D24"
i felt bad bc i kept on messing up. whenever there was a '0,' we were supposed to pronounce it as 'Oh' and whenever there was a 'z' we were supposed to say 'zero.' after about 6 pages of numbers, it all begin to blur together and my slight dyslexia of numbers began to kick in. plus, some of the names were kind of funny, so i would start to laugh. whatever. i got $40 for it and the guy there said that if i wanted to make extra cash, they would pay for every person i recruited. now i just need to hurry up and get a tutoring job and all my money problems will be gone.
yesterday, i finally broke down and went to a pharmacy, the only place in korea that sells any sort of medication, over the counter or otherwise. after spending some time telling the old man behind the counter my ailments, he ended up giving me some pills and a little packet of powder that i'm supposed to mix with water and drink down... they've both been sittingon my desk for a day now, untouched. something about both of them seem a little shady to me. and apparently my brain wasn't fully functioning, so i forgot to ask if they would make me drowsy or any other directions i might need to know. but if i'm not feeling better by tonite, you better believe i'll be taking all of the medication down.
i also made $40 yesterday for pretty much doing nothing. when we got out of class, a friend of mine said he was going to record his voice and told me to come along, and having nothing better to do at the time, i did. apparently, lg, a huge company here in korea, wants to update all of their cell phones that they're selling in america. they want to make everything on the phone voice activated, so they need native english speakers to come in and read pages and pages of random numbers and phrases for voice recognition. so i spent yesterday afternoon talking into a microphone saying things like:
"dial *839-324-5436"
"call leroy at his pager"
"dial gonzalez at his office"
"89z-3450-2D24"
i felt bad bc i kept on messing up. whenever there was a '0,' we were supposed to pronounce it as 'Oh' and whenever there was a 'z' we were supposed to say 'zero.' after about 6 pages of numbers, it all begin to blur together and my slight dyslexia of numbers began to kick in. plus, some of the names were kind of funny, so i would start to laugh. whatever. i got $40 for it and the guy there said that if i wanted to make extra cash, they would pay for every person i recruited. now i just need to hurry up and get a tutoring job and all my money problems will be gone.
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