ok so i'm a little calmer today. i think there is good reason to be wary of what any fruitcake says here, i just gotta watch my shit. i met the andong foreigners last night and they proved to be the sober, objective middle ground between bill and mr. kim. some really good peeps, jay, andy, andy's girlfriend, sarah, and some other dude. andy is from miramichi, NB. and really cool. he walked me home because i was lost.

some things i forgot to mention?

another part of my paranoia that i forgot to mention was that it was most definitely plausible that mr. kim would have gone into my room and ransacked my shit. i had written a bunch of postcards, they were tucked inside a book. i got home one night and mr. kim says "oh, i see you are writing your family, your grandfather, your friends... that is good" or something like that. he has definitely snooped, so maybe he'd stoop too. i just have to defend my privacy in clever ways.

on top of bill being a weird dude in general... he attempts to follow korean customs in a really strange way. one of those customs is gift-giving. most korean stores sell gift packs, so he was scanning the selection in the LG25 (korea 7-11). he didn't like the soap, he thought brandy was inappropriate, as was soju. what did he settle on?

SPAM. he bought mr. and mrs. lee a zipper-bag gift pack of maybe 25 cans of SPAM. 40,000 won (roughly 40 CDN) worth of SPAM. i just sat there shaking my head.

for those of you that know what a shit-brown poffenroth knob is... well, they have them here too, much to my pleasant surprise. andy from miramichi knows andong very well.