Life has really returned to normal. Unfortunately for my normal consists of lots of basketball and video games with the occasional trip south to eat Korean with Sloanie. The past few days have been filled with all of the above. We played basketball a few times at the park and church. I met Sloanie and Hang before Hang took off to California and ate Korean (because believe it or not I was craving it already. As far as video games are concerned, Starcraft is making its comeback among my friends and we have spent many a hour on the battle-net as a result. In fact on Wednesday Jared was on the old B-net at my house and in thoroughly trashed his opponent who turned out to be 7 years old. We had to go to the "V" tree for a photo to celebrate the toddler's demise! (V for victory just like Korea.)
It seems odd that it is only one day after the day I left, especially since more than 36 hours have passed. That international dateline will do it to you everytime I guess. I got home and as I was unpacking Jared, Jeff, and Kyle came over to see me. Then we went over to Jeff's house and chilled for a bit before we went over to Kyle's uncles house in Bountiful. It's a pretty cool looking house. I forgot to take a picture from the outside, but there is one of us all chillin on the ground there playing some video games. (well actually in the picture Jared is the only one playing, but we all played a little later.) Jared, Jeff, and Adam left for home at about 12 and I fell asleep shortly there after. It feels weird to be here. When I got off the plane and the wave of heat hit me I realized I was somewhere else. When I got home from Kyle's uncle's house this morning I started cleaning. It tends to be what I do when I am not sure about what I should be doing. Fortunately for me and unfortunately for my room I don't feel like that very often. Then I played a little starcraft with Kyle... I am going to see right now about getting the "girl of the week," e-mail back up and going since I hear that it was one of the biggest complaints about me being gone to Korea.
Well it's all come to an end. I am sitting here in my hotel room in Inchun at 1:30 in the night awaiting my flight less than 12 hours from now. This is probably the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. There is a computer, a huge vaulted ceiling, a personal sauna, dvd/vcr combo, a fridge and just about everything you ever wanted or needed. Even some funny stuff I will probably bring home to show the boys. I arrive at 2:28 Saturday, Utah time, and it still feels really far away. It has been a good experience amd whether I am ready for it to end or not I no longer have a choice. I am excited to finally g et a good nights sleep without humidity and also a break from eating. I have been fed more in the last few days than I think I ate the rest of the month, which is saying a lot for how much I ate for the rest of the month too. I look forward to seeing everyone and showing the pictures and everything. I will just close now and say see you soon.
This is probably going to be one of my last posts with pictures for the remainder of the trip. I have been using Sunhang's computer to update and what not and her brother is planning on reformatting it here in the near future so I have decided to get all my stuff together and start packing too rather than re-install photoshop and stuff. Last Sunday night Sunhang's dad got really excited and decided that we needed to have a farewell party for me. He bought a bunch of samkyubsal and the whole family ate together. It was a pretty good time. Here I am wrapping some samkyubsal in some lettuce while Sungtaek is leaning forward as to be in the picture. The pic beneath it is one of the most common sites around Korea. Girls in kyobok! I wish that would catch on in America because I sure do love the school girl outfits. The one beneath that is a picture of a mother carrying her baby around on her back tied to her with a blanket like thing. The other two pics are those I took when I was downtown in the market this afternoon. You just don't see stuff like this back home. Anyway it's been quite an experience. It's almost been more fun because I have been able to share more of it with people. I was always so jealous of the guy on Hunkabutta.com, and in fact after I saw his page was when I decided to make a blog with pictures. Today I did my last bit of wandering around and last little bit of shopping. Because tomorrow I have to work and then I will be working everyday until the day I leave here (friday morning,) and head for Seoul. It has been a good experience. I have met a lot of new people and made a lot of new friends as well as spend time with people I knew from a long time ago. There is a lot of stuff I will probably miss, but after the people I care about food has got to be next on my list. I haven't eaten this well in my entire life and I am not looking forward to having it end.
