A Room of My Own

I'm back in Seoul. This post will have to be short because it's late and I've got an interview early. Also I'm racking up the bill at this internet cafe.

Points to note:
1) I have a house. Er, a room at a boarding house. Yeah, and the $450 a month nets me two meals a day but there's no sink in the bathroom.

2) I'm gonna start my Korean classes at level 4. That's a level higher than expected. The interviewer even gave me the option of starting at level 5! He was pretty impressed with my speaking level, it seems.

3) Think that Chinese will replace English internationally? Check out this pretty decent article which discusses the foreign language market around the world. It paints a good picture of S. Korea, incidentally.

Annyeongi kyeseyo! (Good bye!)

The Deep South

Korea at last.

After 24 hours in planes and airports, five days in the sweltering, sweat-drenched heat of Taiwan, several thousand incomprehensibly fascinating Chinese characters plastered over billboards, signs, and menus, countless pieces of priceless pottery in museums, and the tallest building in the world, I've made it.

Everything has changed. Before, I was sitting around lazily at home wasting time on the computer. Now, I'm sitting around lazily at a summer English camp wasting time on the computer.

No pictures this week. Many apologies! My camera's here, but the cable's not.

Location: Busan. You can see what wikipedia and the city itself have to say about the biggest city on the south coast of Korea.