::A Geek in Korea::

I came in an hour early to work to have a meeting with my director. We’ll be talking about books, schedules, new contracts, that sort of thing. I was there plenty early, but she was having a meeting with Korean teachers at the time, so I wasn’t able to take advantage of my arrival.

Right as their meeting adjourned and I was about to go have my meeting, a girl walked out of the restroom wailing like a banshee. 99% of the time when someone cries, it’s more to get attention than for actual injury. The girl had her hand pressed to her forehead, and continued to cry. She hadn’t fallen or ran. Why was she so upset.

The director went to the girl. There was a puddle of blood in the girl’s hand, and she had started dripping onto the floor. Immediately all the younger students crowded around the girl. “Why are you crying? Why are you bleeding? What…what… what?!”

The director took the girl back into the bathroom while I diverted the crowds attention. The girl was hurt seriously. The last thing she needed was twenty annoying students asking her about her trauma. From what we could gather over the girls sobs, she cut her head on the wall next to the door. She just…ran into the wall with her forehead?

I didn’t take a close look at the time, but on inspecting the boy’s restroom, the only thing slightly head piercing on the wall would have been the towel rack. She smacked her head on the towel rack and peeled off some forehead. Ouch.

Instead of having the meeting, the director took the girl to the hospital. There is usually a lot of horseplay before school starts, but the students actually listened to us this time when we told them to keep it under control. Students that asked about the injury to the remaining teachers didn’t get any serious answers from us. We wanted to keep their minds off a bleeding classmate.

Luckily, the girl didn’t need any stitches, but she was badly shaken up and went home without studying. I rescheduled the meeting for later in the week. It should go as planned as long as everyone in the school is in one piece.