cactus

oh how i love korea . . .

here is a funny story, hope you enjoy it.

so my co-teacher has a cactus. he had it when i first met him in december.
it was a very sorry looking cactus. it was in a browning paper cup and it hadnt been watered in months, and that was in december.

fast forward to february. we move our offices to the new office space. he moves said cactus. he doesnt want to throw it away, but there isnt any room for the cactus in the new office, so it finds its way behind a door in a cabinet.

three may comes around, and said cactus is still in the cabinet. no water, no sunlight . . . nothin'.

then comes mid-july. there is a woman who worked at my school for just the summer break. there was no room for her in the main office space, so she worked out of our office (we had an extra desk)

she was looking around the office, and went inside the cabinet and saw the sorry looking cactus. she took it out of the cabinet and gave it some much needed TLC for the first time in almost a year. a few weeks later she leaves.

for some reason today (almost october) i ask my co-teacher where is his cactus. (i always teased him about how he didnt take good care of the cactus) and this is what he said:
"you wouldnt believe it. you know the woman that worked in our office? she took my cactus. for real. when she left she took MY cactus. she didnt even ask me, it was MY cactus" (he is saying this while half laughing)

such is the life in korea. you go to another school for a month, you find a cactus in a cabinet, you nurse it back to health and then you take it home without asking whose it is :-p

i love it