Well I’m here

The adventure of korea is ongoing and constantly changing.  I am adjusting to the challenges of being a teacher, a foreigner, and a walking sign of Americanness.  So far, I have only met my fellow teachers.  They are nice, driven, and very helpful.  I have had only one drunken foray, and that was relatively uneventful.  It involved the movie; True Romance, starring Christian Slater, Derryl Hanna, and a whole multitude of cameos; a few bottles of soo ju and me, revealing deep, personal, intimate secrets about my love of comic books and bruce lee films.  True Romance was not a good film, but the others I was watching with disagreed.  They believed this film to be paramount cinema lexicon.   I disagreed, but kept my mouth shut, sipping my soo ju as I slowly drifted into the beginning ebbs of drunkeness.  I know this sounds dull, but things have been relatively uneventful.  I am tight on funds at the current moment, so I am tracking every won I spend.   Each day I wake up, put on my running shoes and my awkardly high running shorts, and go for a run along the streets of gimpo.  As I run past koreans gawk at my pasty white legs and car drivers make it there vendetta to run me over.  The weather yesterday was nice, rainy and cold.  It was a nice transition from the hazed, brown tinted skies that have been populating my first few days in Seoul.  I have not ventered into the big cit yet.  I have plans to do so this weekend.  Unfortunately these plans pend on me deciphering the Korean bus system.  The Korean bus system is a huge challenge.   It is a labyrinth, born in the fiery pits of Mordor, and I am terrified to use it because a) I do not speak a lick of Korean and b) I don’t have any acquaintances at the current moment who can help me navigate this vast, incredible puzzle.  Until my next post I hope all is well, and I apologize for the lack of pictures.  I left my digital camera at home, and will not be acquiring until after my first pay check.  Good Luck and Never Surrender.  Erik, over and out.