Half Way Point

Wow. I have been in Korea for 6 months now. I can't believe how fast it has gone. I know these next few months are going to go by equally as fast and I don't know how I feel about that. On one hand I'm excited to never have to work at my school again. But I'm going to be leaving some of the most amazing friends I have ever met. I know I won't lose the real ones, but I have a feeling there will be a few I will end up not talking to again. Eh, so is life right?

So I've been here 6 months. What have I learned? Well I can tell a cab driver how to get almost anywhere I want to in Seoul. All you have to do is add "yok" (which basically means subway station) to the end of any place in Seoul. For example if I'm in Myeongdong and I want to take a cab back to where I live, in Cheongdam, I just have to tell the cabby "Cheongdam yok." And off I go into the general direction of where I live. I also know how to tell them to go left or right and to stop "right here."

I've learned that Tuesday Wing Night is an amazing way to bring you back from a crappy Monday and more then likely a crappier Tuesday. I literally count down the minutes to when I can run out of the building screaming "ASAH!!" and onto the subway headed towards Itaewon. Meeting up with your friends at the same bar every week may seem "boring" and "old" but I really love it. Beer also helps.

On that note I've learned how to drink really crappy beer. Through my college years I never drank the stuff. EVER. I hated it. I would have an amoretto sour here and there but never would I order a beer. In Korea (especially on wing night with 8000 won pitchers) beer is a staple. There are two kinds of beer in Korea, Cass and Hite. I'm not to sure which I like better but I do tend to drink more Cass.

I've learned that there are rude, stuck up, mean, racist people everywhere. Shows you that regardless of the country people are the same.

Though I already knew this it is now engrained into me, thanks boss, that no matter how hard you work you will not get recognized for it. However the instant you do something seemingly wrong to management you will be talked to. Love that. Luckily that hasn't messed up my hardworking mentality.

I've learned that life feels the same no matter where I am. I thought that coming to Korea would be this big life changing thing. But really it doesn't feel much different. Sad? Not really. Maybe I won't realize the extent of what this "adventure" did to me until it's over.

I'll try and post more. I'm sorry that I have been slacking so much. I blame ugly, cloudy and cold Korean weather. Like I've said time and time again I don't do much worth posting. I work all week and hang out with my friends on the weekends. Soon though we're going to be going outside of Seoul and actually seeing Korea.