i know you're all pining for me (post edited for those who can't read korean).

well... this is what's up. it is now intensive. i am currently at 9:05 am on the morning of the monday of the second week of intensive.

things that are happening?

nancy burke - my coworker and 8 year korean veteran - is moving back to labrador. she is going from seoul to labrador. that will most definitely be a strange transition.

my motorbike rocks. it's a 2001, therefore it rattles and makes funny sounds but i think it's pretty much indestructable. i've been lost on it a couple times and invariably i end up in youngdeungpo... in fact this has happened on 2 occasions. if you look at the map provided at (edit-this is the english version) http://asp.congnamul.com/seoul/english/map.jsp you can find out just how far it is from youngdeungpo to apkujeong.

and when you consider that it is a pretty roundabout route to get back there, peppered with the occasional run-in with an ajossi for directions - "ajossi, apkujeong-dong, kwanglim kyo-hui odee-yeh-yo?".

as well, the heat has turned up. it's hot as ass, maybe 35 degrees, and the humidity is at about 90%. which sucks in ways i can't describe. if people in my family find the okanagan unbearable...

i was walking with hannah in insadong yesterday. a crazy guy kicked a bottle of water at her. yes, seoul gets crazy people. it was everything i could do to not throw him half a block, but hannah is the kind of girl who doesn't like violence in any form, for any reason. so me throwing some drunk dude while getting slapped for being violent would be just a bad situation.