Welcome to the other side of the world, You'll find it can be rather familiar.

Anyong Hasseo,

I'm sitting on my bed, in the one corner of my apartment that I manage to swipe some internet from some hapless wireless network, and I figured that now would be as good of time as any to come back and give you fine folk some more reading materials.

To start in the present, I'm back to working at Odea, but I can't really say that I work a full job. Right now I work from 3:50 to 7:20 on Monday wedsnedays and Fridays, and Tuesdays and Thursdays will be from 3:50 to 5:50. And I'm still at full pay. Myself and Paul are splitting one teacher's work until the new semester, so for about a month I get an easy load. I won't complain.

Life in Korea has been interesting, I've made a lot of friends since I arrived here, a very select few of whom, I'm coming to trust quite a bit, and its good to know that I've got a big Australian man backing my corner. (More on that later.)

The adventures and mis-adventures have continued. Chris, Paul and I took a last minute run to Seoul, putting us there at Midnight, where we met up with my friends Kyle and Mark and proceeded to paint the town red. The highlights of my night were running through the train station doors, and making the jump to the train with 30 seconds to spare before it left, a 4 year old on the train who loved us, eating Kebabs, and my personal favorite, After an hour or so of flirting with some Korean girls, and letting them take us to a really sketchy bar, when one turns to Paul and says "You buy me drink? How much for blowjob" And the sad realization that these girls were only interested in how big our wallets were, and then we went for McDonalds at 5 am (Yes, without the hookers.)

The next major event was Australia day, where a rather drunk Korean man threatened to kill me in an alley, this would be the point that Chris lept to my defence before I could say a word. It was pretty sexy actually. There is more to this story, but it's not worth the time to write. If you're interested, ask me sometime. The big thing for me was seeing that Chris had my back. And realizing that I don't ever want to be on his bad side.

My next major event was the second trip to Seoul, While here I saw JUMP, which I commented on earlier. I'm still so happy that I saw this, and Can not wait to go back to see it, either again in Seoul, or in Busan.

I admit, that I feel like I'm kind of skimming over the trips,, but I'm starting to realize that for the most part life in a Korean city, is just that, and it doesn't change all that much from spot to spot. I got to do some tourist stuff in Seoul, We saw the National War Museum, and it was interesting to see to be sure, I got lots of photos, which will be up on Facebook, but it didn't seem as important as the May 18th cemetary. My next trip to Seoul will hold a trip to one of the Palaces for sure.

So I'm coming up on my 2nd month here in Korea, and I have to admit that I'm starting to think of here as home. That's actually the one thing I really noticed about being in Seoul. It wasn't my Korea. My Korea is Gwangju, its where I feel like I belong right now, even on the days that I feel so out of place that I'm certain I'm an alien.

Oh! I got my Alien card, finally.

But its late and I feel like I'm writing for the sake of writing, and not because I have anything to say. So I'm going to say goodnight.

Until next time

J