and there are my boobs

Gin, your life sounds so fun! Grilling and pools and biking. It's raining here. Again.

My life has become a little ridiculous. Last friday I had a physical. I'm not really sure why since I'll be leaving my school in a month or so, but I had to do it anyway. The first bad omen was that I was trying to fill out a medical history report, except that it was in korea, and no one could explain the stuff I didn't know so they basically crossed a line through most of it. Then they started out with the normal stuff. Height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, eyes, ears, etc.

Then we stepped it up a notch. Urine and blood tests. Now your regular urine test isn't fun- this one was worse. They give you a small strip of what looks like litmus paper with different colored bits on it. And then they send you to the bathroom out through the waiting room down the hall, and you hold the thing while you pee on it. And after you pee on this thing how do you get your pants back on one handed? It's not fun being stuck in a small stall trying pull your pants up while also trying hard not to get pee all over yourself. So then you finally manage to get yourself presentable again, and then you have to walk back down the hall and throught the waiting room with your pee-stick before the nurse looks at it and then you throw it away. Seriously, I would have given anything for a cup.

Then I gave blood (no bandaid afterwards, you have to hold the cotton ball on your own arm) and then they had to listen to my chest or something. So they take me in a room at the end of a small hallway and the doctor without so much as a 'hello how are you' (in English or Korean) lifts up my shirt. The door is still open. Naturally I was like "what the hell!" and then he showed me the stethiscope (sp?) and so I sat rather stunned as he once again proceded to lift up my shirt and listen to me breath. The door is still open. Luckily for me no one decided to walk by at that minutes, but it sure does make me appreciate the privacy that you get back home!

I also had to get a chest x-ray done, which was retarded if nothing else.

The best part about it all is that I'm pretty down sure I will never know the results. I'm guessing the school will get them. Hopefully I don't have a strange disease!

Next time you get a physical make sure you are thankful for the small things. I'm on the last week of classes, and quite frankly neither the students nor I want to be here. It's summer right now and everyone is ready to hit those fun summer activities.

Miss you guys! 42 or 43 days until I'm back in the country!