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| Korea is the land of protocol. Being away makes me realize that I need certain people in my life. I took a free MBTI analysis test the other day and made some other people take it too. I'm an ENFP. Apparently, only 1% of the Korean population is classified as ENFP which, I suppose, could explain why I feel like such an odd-ball here. I miss my friends! My favorite things in Korea so far: No tax/tip... anywhere.
Family Mart (and their sandwich + milk combo)
Subway Line #2
Texting in Korean
Hangang, hangang, hangang
Trade Tower
Jjim-jil-bangs
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
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| youngisgliding: i think you would look cool really fat | | |
| It's hard to put Korea into words. I haven't been taking any pictures. For some reason, it doesn't feel like I've come here on vacation. I have no strong desire to tour Korea, though the people here are more than willing to show me around. I love going through my days as if I really do live here, belong here. Work is so mundane it's unbelievable, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. The people that I've met at work are such a breath of fresh air. It's not even that I've made lifelong friendships. If anything, I'm completely uncomfortable around them. This can be hard at times since it's not something I'm accustomed to. The culture shock is subtle but significant. I get so bored on the subway, so I read. I tried my best to dive into a Korean novel, but it's too challenging to be relaxing. Walden and Civil Disobedience, the only other book I brought with me, is challenging in a different sense, unfortunately. This post, I realize, is terribly ambiguous and introspective (if that's even the word I'm looking for), and dangerously near being emo. I am not Urim. So off I go. | | |
| "Moments like those that passed before his knock was answered measure the quick breath of true adventure. What might be behind those green panels! Gamesters at play; cunning rogues baiting their traps with subtle skill; beauty in love with courage, and thus planning to be sought by it; anger, death, love, disappointment, ridicule--any of these might respond to that temerarious rap." MSN messenger: g_shin@hotmail.com to chat with me at work (like any good employee). Hope everyone is doing well, | | |
| It was a rough week with an alarming number of presentations (which I consider, hands down, my greatest nemesis) and I got owned in CMS again by Urim and his stupid tirade against public restrooms - curse him!
So, rough week. But I ran into Minjin on the West Campus bus today, and we talked about nothing particularly peaceful or encouraging in nature, but it was quite possibly the most rejuvenating, comforting conversation I've had in a while. Which is so odd, because this is probably the second conversation I've had with Minjin that lasted longer than a minute. In any case, by the time I got off at my stop, I was so at peace with my shortcomings, with my rather hazy future, the sty that is my mind, my life, and my room, incidentally, that I have come to conclude that I must be in love with Minjin?
CSR. Here we go, here we go, here we go now.
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