Noraebong & Medical Check

Well I know these are 2 completely different topics but they were both humorous and worth blogging about events. Saturday night a bunch of people from work went out to eat and then to noraebong for some of the teachers last weekend here. Noraebong is like karaoke. You rent out a room so that you only have to sing in front of your friends instead of in front of a bar full or random people, so you embarrass yourself a little less. We went to a top notch one this weekend since we had a lot to celebrate, but all the teachers told us not to get used to this one because usually they are dumps. This one on the other hand had a drum set and tambourines out for people to play along with the singers. This was quite an experience and is a big thing here so I imagine I will be doing this a few more times throughout my stay. On Monday the school sent us to get our medical check done so that we could apply for our alien registration card. They pretty much just want to make sure you are not bringing in any diseases. This was quite the experience. We get there with our instructions written in Korean as to why we are there, which the lady immediately just throws away. I guess she has seen enough foreigners come through that she knows why we were there. We go into a locker room and are asked to strip down and put on this LOVELY pant, robe and slipper set and meet back out in the lobby. When we meet in the lobby we are quickly shuffled into various rooms. I first went into the doctors office where she asked if I had depression or any trouble breathing. I passed this room so then I moved onto a room where I got my blood pressure, blood, weight, height, and chest measurements taken. Why they need to know my bra size I have no clue... but I was not going to ask any questions. Then I got shuffled to the vision test. This room was followed by the hearing test. Next came the chest X-Ray. Then the urine sample. Lastly the dental check, which literally was just looking in my mouth and viewing my bite. Finally we were able to go change back into our clothes and try to explain to the people where they needed to send the results, since the lady had previously thrown away the written explanation. This description does not even begin to explain how humorous this experience was. You would exit a room and sit on a bench for the next room. Talk about assembly line medical check. Mind you there were about 50 people here also all being shuffled through different rooms. I would say their theory is pretty efficient and they don't mess around there. All this for $74.00! The last few days before we get kids, which is Friday, will be planning and workshops. We do have a Korean holiday on Thursday so no school, which I think will be a shopping day for me. Although we do have off on Thursday unfortunately we have an all day workshop on Saturday, but everyone tells me they serve us awesome breakfast, lunch and dinner! Well this is all for now! Hope all is well with everyone!