Just Eric – Part 2

I liked to come into the teachers’ office at my school about 2 hours before classes started for the night. This wasn’t so I could get ready for teaching, but since I was trying to save money and was living so poorly in tiny apartment without air conditioning (I was definitely not prepared for just how humid Korea was going to be) I came to the office and relaxed at my desk. Most of the other teachers showed up about 5 minute before classes started, so I pretty much had the room to myself and could just lay back and take a nap in the cool room. One day, about 3 months after I’d started, the secretary from the front desk who mostly dealt with students and parents came into this room and startled me awake. She told me there was a phone call for…