Bam!

Well folks, I’ve been slacking. and I’m sorry about this big gap between posts but it has come from life being busy busy busy, which is a good thing I suppose. There have been theme parties to attend, friends to council and console, a play to rehearse, and, of course, a big old job taking up a good chunk of my time. The more stuff going on, the harder it is to just sit down and write it all. So I’m not even going to try writing it all. What I am going to do is hit a few key goings on and then hopefully take less time to write the next entry so I can get back to covering things.

First of all, as usual, I am in a café. I’m eating strawberry gelato to console myself after a fruitless trip to Emart in search of a good summer blanket. I’m one of those people who needs to sleep under something, even if it’s really hot. But Emart was not forthcoming – all they had were thick duvets and thin pads to sleep on rather than under. If I can’t find a good blanket elsewhere I might have to ask my mom to bring me one from home. That’s right – mama arrives in a mere two weeks! (Celebrate Goodtimes just started playing, throwing me back to my banquet server days. Oh cheesy weddings). Mom and I will be exploring Daegu as well as romping about. I have to remember to dig into a Lonely Planet guide and ask around to decide what activities we shall do.

But to the past/present rather than the future. In awesome bullet form. Bam!

- It’s election time. As a result, there are awesome campaign trucks roaming the streets blasting songs about their candidate of choice and displaying either screens showing endearing videos about the candidate (candidate in a field! candidate with baby!) or housing ahjummas holding signs and doing synchronized hand dances. Heck yeah elections in Korea are way more exciting than elections back home, and I can’t ever understand anything about these candidates. There are also big banners everywhere showing smiling pictures of the candidates. There’s one I keep seeing with a man and a woman on it and I can’t figure out which one is the candidate.

- rehearsals for the play that I am in at the end of June have begun.; indeed, I have one tonight. It’s a bit daunting to be memorizing lines and acting again but hopefully I don’t disgrace myself.

- I went to go see Korea play Ecuador in a friendly match a couple of weekends ago in Seoul. it was really fun and hyped me up for the World Cup even more. Korean fans are hardcore. This game didn’t even matter (and Ecuador isn’t even in the WC) but they cheered hard the whole way through. On all the seats were big red cards with chants printed up on them. After the game, some dudes came out and performed the Korean world cup song and then the that is going to South Africa came out and carried the flag around the perimeter of the field.

- My delightful friend from Guelph, Jen, has been hired and will be arriving in Daegu to start working right beside me in the near future. My delightful friend from Guelph, Melinda, will be leaving around the same time for more career aiding ventures. So I am trading one Guelphite for another. Four other newbies will be joining the office over the course of the summer so there will be quite a changing of the guards afoot.

- I just bought a ticket to the Jisan Valley Rock Festival that is going down in July. Yes, I will be enjoying the sweet tunes of Vampire Weekend and Belle and Sebastian in Korea! So excited I can barely stand it.

Okay, I think I shall leave it at that for now. You all know that even though I neglect you, I still love you. Hope you all are having goodtimes and getting some sun. It`s been wet and grey the last few days but soon, very soon, I will be getting a sweet tan and laying on a beach. Aw yeah.

Much Love,
AAA