Looks like I goofed up for the first session of my Timing for Animation workshop. According to my calendar, the workshop was supposed to take place from 8pm to midnight on Friday June 25 (today). That would make it 12pm-4pm on Saturday June 26 in Korea. It turns out that the class was scheduled for 10am-2pm on Saturday in Korea, which makes that 6pm on Friday here.
I came home from dinner (oddly enough, at a Korean restaurant) at around 7:30pm to find a few messages in my ICQ window saying:
6:22 PM Please authorize my request and add me to your Contact List.
6:32 PM authonaztion please..
7:16 PM We waited long time.
7:22 PM We disappoint your situation.
I also got an email wondering why I had not contacted them on video conference. I thought, “Wow, these kids are really on the ball. They’re contacting me an hour and half before the class is scheduled to begin.”
At around 8pm, I fired up the video phone software and waited for them to go online and answer my call. I waited for a little while. Then I started thinking that maybe I had gotten the time wrong. So, at 8:15pm, I went to my trusty Date and Time preference pane and switched the time zone to match up with Korea. The time showed 12:15pm. I just about freaked. I had missed the class time by 2 hours.
I immediately sent an email to all involved parties explaining the confusion and apologizing for making the students wait for nearly an hour and a half. There’s still the second workshop next week, so all is not lost. Hopefully, we can reschedule a new date to make up for tonight’s mixup.
On the bright side, I already have my notes and materials ready to go. :)
UPDATE: Both workshop sessions have been rescheduled, and the times in both timezones were triple-checked to makes sure we are synchronized. All is well again.
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