3 weeks and counting

Got my visa in the mail yesterday morning. Took about 2 weeks, including postage time.  Also booked flights to get to South Korea. From leaving my house, to getting to where I need to be in South Korea, will be: 5 hour drive, 1 domestic flight, 2 international flights and 1 or 2 buses.

Yep, will be super tired after all that, but am looking forward to it. With the way the flights are, I've got a longer stop-over in Australia than overseas so I don't have to exchange any money.

Now that the visa and tickets are all sorted, just gotta figure out what I'm taking with me and make the time to catch up with friends before I go.

Should I start counting down?

I haven't blogged in a while. Mainly because not much has been happening.

Other than the whole going back to Korea thing.

I got my visa number, and sent off documents to the Korean embassy this week, and hopefully will get the visa some time next week. I'm looking forward to getting back there. Not only will my boredom be delayed, but the excitement of a new job, in a new city should be a good feeling. Also, I'll be back in a hagwon, which is nice. Will have my mornings free to do stuff. I won't have to deal with the bureaucratic bullshit that I had to deal with at my last job.

With a month to go, I've been going through all my crap here. Throwing stuff out, burning some stuff... Today I burnt all the notes I made at uni about 10 years ago - that I never looked as since. It felt good - very therapeutic. Have also got a fair few old Macs to get rid of, a couple of Mac Classics, a Mac Plus, even an ImageWriter printer. I'll be keeping my Mac 512ke (because its awesome, old-school style), and my PowerMac 5500/250, since its got all my pre Mac OS X stuff.

Am looking forward to the next chapter. Am hoping that this job, will be as good, or even better than my first job in Korea.

Out with the annoying...

For the past year, Facebook has slowly been annoying the hell out of me more and more. I've reached the point where I've deleted almost everything off facebook, including photos, some posts, and some "friends".  If you are someone I know/knew and were in one of the photos I had up on facebook, if I have a copy of that photo and you want it, just let me know - I'll send it to you.

I got sick of all the applications that people were using, and then all the invites they'd send. I got sick of all the photos people would upload. I got sick of allt he pages people liked, and all the groups people joined.

 I got sick of all the CRAP PEOPLE DO ON FACEBOOK!

In retrospect, Facebook was one of the reasons why I was not liking my previous job/location in Korea. Everyone was on facebook, and therefore, up with everyone's business, if they liked it or not. Basically, everyone was in everyone else's business - even in an indirect manner. It was like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. It was one of those situations where you had to be careful with what you said everywhere, because it had the potential to come back and bite you on the ass. Maybe that reflects the people who were living there, rather than their use of facebook. Facebook just helped speed up the process.

And yeah, I was part of that, too. The "foreigner group" in the place were I lived was just too much. Once I left that place I felt a sigh of relief. It was like there a separate bubble, in which the "foreign teacher group" lived in. I met a few nice people there, with one that I am in contact with on a regular basis, even after we both left that hell hole.

I've learnt from my 2nd Korean experience and don't want to forget it, since I don't want to forget the lessons live learned from it. That experience is also the reason why I'm going back to hagwons, moving closer to Busan, and will not be using facebook like I did when I moved to Anseong.

End rant.