Monday, July 14, 2008

A Fond Farewell to Armistice, unless Mr. Kim is really tearing down those nuclear missile factories

So, in a feeble attempt to liken myself to the wit and verbal acrobatics of my lovely life partner's digitized scrawling, I am also writing to bid all you fine folks anyung hee kyseyo. If you didn't know already we are setting off for another year of applied kim chi and fermented Engrish in the land of neon. We depart on Thursday, July 17th and will be back to work by Monday. We will be living near the ocean in SK's version of San Diego, Busan. We will be working for the same company and with some of the same people, and we anticipate that our sophomoric appearance will lend to a better control of the language and much less consumption of poorly prepared liquids like soju, Hite, and mokali. We will have the same schedule, working from around 4pm to 10:30pm. We're both excited to be working for a reasonable sum of monetary compensation again in a place where teachers aren't expected to live just above the poverty line. We will however be returning to our masochistic substituting jobs next year in Oceanside as we wrap up our teacher credentialing program at CSU San Marcos. However until then it will be lots of rice, bad Engrish, and worse karaoke while we stoke up our bank accounts for a year of school without huge student loans. We will miss you all, and I will do my best to keep you in the know about our adventures. Our door is always open to anyone adventurous enough to brave the sixteen hour flight to the far east; if not we understand completely. Otherwise we will return to this land that was made for you and me in June of '09. I hope this message finds you doing well and don't hesitate to send an email back my way, even if it is to tell me that you have much better garbage to wade through while plugged in to the interwebs or nets or whatever you're caught in. I love you all and will miss your lovely mugs while we're away. Stay gold, Pony Boys and Girls, stay gold.

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