Korea in a nutshell

I have, until now been completely opposed to blogging, however, the group email thing is getting old, as I am some of you will agree, and instead, here are my travels for you to read at your own leisure. I will try and keep up, however, as with anywhere, life becomes more of a routine and more mundane as the days go by. The exciting adventures become less and instead you spend more time with people you have come to call friends, which is what I have done. I have met wonderful people, with whom I have been experiencing Korea, and with whom I will have many more experiences in the months to come.


I will try and keep this updated with the randomness of Korea, the unreal things that happen here, I have actually convinced to boys in 7-11 that I am famous and have signed autographs for them. I have almost died more than a handful of times at the mercy of the half drunk taxi drivers in this country who view traffic lights as more of a suggestion: you should stop but nothing will happen if you don't or the light is red but go ahead and turn right. Police cars stopped at red lights with their lights on as if to say only "I am a Police Man, I am a Police Man".

I have also began to realize the large culture gap that exsists even between English speaking countries. Being the only American amongst a group of Englishmen and South Africans you come to realize that there are endless ways to say the same thing, that what may mean one thing in Flint means a totally different thing in Newburyport. I have begin picking up little pieces of their language without even noticing it, words like "reckon", "mate" and "fany"...dont worry, I am making sure they take a little piece of American English back home with them.

With Christmas over and the new year fast approaching I am ready for 2007, for once I have no resolutions, sure there are things I want to change and am by no means completely satisfied with myself, I am however content, in what I am doing, the direction I am trying to move in, my progress over the past year and the ambition I am once again digging up in myself. And so, why bog that down with a bunch of demands? Why start thinking about what I want to change when instead I can just keep making the slow progress I have been working on for the past three months!

Whats in store in the coming months....Gav and I take a Kross Korea KoRail Trip- The DMZ, Andong, Pohang, Samson, Osan, Seoul and many more hidden treasures in Korea