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Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

The topic basically says it all.

I have 4 weeks of vacation a year. We get a week off every 3 months per 12 month contract plus additional holidays.

I have my 3rd week break starting in April and a doctor has recommended I go on bedrest! I don't even feel like I'm working that hard but yet I come home and feel like I'm 90 years old.

Has anyone else had this problem. What a waste of a vacation but honestly all I really want to do is SLEEP!

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

If you think it's a good idea, do what the doctor says. It never hurts to just rest your body and brain. Maybe just spend a couple of days in the house until you get bored and then take a trip somewhere.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

You may not feel how tired you are when you are rushing from one class to another and doing a million things at once. However, once you slow down it may hit you.

It can't hurt to take it easy for a couple of days. I find it difficult to rest myself I like to be on the go all the time, so I have to tell myself to take a rest.

Use your vacation to recharge your batteries and do stuff you don't have the time to do when you are working and I don;'t mean cleaning Smile

Ilovebdt

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

You might be surprised how doing a bit of *light* excercise and treating yourself to several nice meals a day can help.

I found I had the opposite problem this year - three weeks off, a week of useless February lessons and then another ten days off and I could hardly wait to get back to work, especially when it was too cold to do much in Korea.

Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

I basically agree that you don't really realize how tired you are until you've slowed down.

I only have 4 more months here and I am worried that I'll regret wasting these vacation weeks. I guess resting is never a waste of time.
I know right now the only thing I can think of is that I don't have to get up a single day next week if I don't feel like it.
Unfortunately, one week is not long enough!

canuckistan · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:12 am Post subject:

I did 2 years straight of hagwon work--the first year was split shifts. By the end I really, really needed a vacation. Went to Thailand for a month...it took 10-12 days of lollygagging/no schedule, good food and I was feeling 100% again!

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004