hi! i'm myra and this is my online depository of things i'd like to remember about my travels.

currently, i teach english in south korea, a place where your endearment is directly proportional to the country's nonsensicality.

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Who wants to go to the Korean Wave concert?

Check out my last post. Jacob is down. Anyone else before I snag tickets?

Edit: Tickets are 5,000 KRW.

http://www.koreanwavefestival.com/2010/
Boa, Taeyang, Kara, Super Junior, Girls Generation, 2PM, Son Dan Bi, Beast, SHINee and MORE. Move over Jisan Valley Rock Festival and Kanye West/Lupe Fiasco. I think I’d rather leave Korea with a KPOP concert…and with a bang! (Sadly, not Big Bang ㅠ_ㅠ)

http://www.koreanwavefestival.com/2010/

Boa, Taeyang, Kara, Super Junior, Girls Generation, 2PM, Son Dan Bi, Beast, SHINee and MORE. Move over Jisan Valley Rock Festival and Kanye West/Lupe Fiasco. I think I’d rather leave Korea with a KPOP concert…and with a bang! (Sadly, not Big Bang ㅠ_ㅠ)

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Cesare Pavese

I’m deskwarming today!!

It’s faaaaaaantastic! The last 3 months have been absolutely insane at work. People who know me can tell you how one of my hobbies is putting too much on my plate. But busy-ness while teaching and living in a foreign country, both highly stressful situations, can turn me into a raging monster.

And that’s how I have been lately. I’ve been mostly anti-social at work, avoiding everyone except my two favorite co-teachers — who do the same thing. I suppose it’s to avoid the drama that’s been circulating in the English zone (English teachers at my school are known to be a bit cocky, a bit strange and a bit aggressive!). But since these high pressure months have been winding down, everyone’s been a lot less hostile with each other. Phew.

Now, the one thing I hate about deskwarming during break is seeing the Cool Messenger list and seeing how many teachers are actually at work today:

I think you can guess what the icons mean. I’m the only one at work in this view…and if I scroll down, the total of people at work reaches almost 10…out of 90 employees. In fact, I’m the only one on my floor (other than the ghost that the students and my co-teacher claim to have seen. I’m serious. Maybe we can nap together in the teacher’s sleeping lounge.) so I can probably just sit in the English Zone classroom and continue my Matrix/Terminator/Star Wars marathon (don’t ask why) using the 90 inch screen in there.

Expect a lot of social networking activity from me in the next 7 hours.

Namedaemun on a Wednesday night with friends before we all go off on our vacations over the next month. Next time I see most of these people, I will only have 2 weeks… or in Mary’s case: 3 days… left in Korea. ㅠ_ㅠ
[photo credit: thecharliechapter]

Namedaemun on a Wednesday night with friends before we all go off on our vacations over the next month. Next time I see most of these people, I will only have 2 weeks… or in Mary’s case: 3 days… left in Korea. ㅠ_ㅠ

[photo credit: thecharliechapter]