From South Korea.

Jun and I are presently at a hostel in South Korea.  The lounge is small, but cozy and comfortable, and it's from here that I am writing a quick blog post. 

 

Yesterday was Christmas, and it was still depressing to be away from my friends and family.  Jun and I bickered for a solid percentage of the day, which was not helpful.  It happens.  We had a crab and cake on Christmas Eve, but we didn't particularly *celebrate* Christmas.  However, this year was still massively better than last year, as followers of this blog will be aware.  Holy God, it was horrible.

 

We hiked and rode rented bikes around this small town that we're staying in, and I got some pictures that I'm feeling hopeful about.  I'll need to see them in a large size to tell for sure...the tiny little camera screen doesn't reveal much.

 

South Korea is nice and it's interesting and I'll post more about it later, but right now I just miss my brother and sister-in-law's nice warm kitchen, and the warm love of my family.  Maybe next year.

The Last Week.

This is my last week before vacation...I have two more days at the junior high and 2 days at the elementary school.  The elementary school has missed a bunch of classes, due to swine flu, so, naturally, I get to make up those classes.  It's less than ideal...I spend a lot of my canceled class-time doing prep-work, but there's also a fair amount of thumb-twiddling.  The thumb-twiddling time can be spent in some productive ways, such as learning Japanese or writing blogs, but I'd trade it for a balance...teaching 6 classes a day at the ES is very specifically  *not* fun.

I have some new DJ gear on the way, which is good because I've been slowly losing my mind over the course of the last year.  I like making music, but the spontaneity is definitely lacking when it takes me 3 or 4 hours to make a tiny beat loop that my perfectionistic-ass brain is still mildly dissatisfied with.  Just loading up some tracks on the turntables and rocking out is massively more satisfying, and, more importantly, I need the damn practice so I can start DJing out again in Tokyo.  I'm tired to trying to do it in electronics stores...it's funny, but it's shitty practice.

Anyway...next week, KOREA!  Yay.  Jun and I are excited, although I'm currently harboring a healthy paranoia about getting sick.  Yeah, we'll see what happens on that front.  After we get back, it's off to her parents for New Year's.  I'll definitely have some healthy blogging to do when I get back, so keep your eyes on this here space.