End of Korea

Well, I have not posted anything in months.  Nearly half a year. Wow.
Life has been going great and I have been having many exciting and wonderful adventures. It would be impossible to actually catch up... but I needed to do something because my time in Korea has passed and I am starting a new experience.

Korea was great to me. I made many friends and experienced new things.

It was my first opportunity to experience being a minority. It was not a bad experience at all, but I got a small taste what some other minorities feel in the US.  Sometimes it got old: constantly being warned food was too spicy, surprise by using chopsticks,  or the foreigner bubble on the subway where every seat is taken except for the ones next to you.

I did so many things that i cannot fully list, but can just do a little... i visited palaces, Suwon fortress,  ice fishing and caving, zip lines and bare handed fishing. I climbed, hiked, and wandered the cities. I snuck up on rooftops just for a beautiful view.  I did the DMZ. Swam in the sea. Flew to Japan twice... Nagasaki and Tokyo. Busan fun. Saw a naval battle renactment of Admiral Yi in Jindo. Top of the 63 building and N. Seoul tower. Baseball and soccer, but only basketball once....so much more

I have had tons of food. Korean BBQ, soju, beer, soups, stews, veggies, sundae (blood sausage), ramen burgers, animal anus and intestines,  raw sea food soup. Beef which is expensive and pork which is cheap. Spiced, sweet, and marinades galore. All different cuts. Kimchi and rice. Cold noodles and black noodles,  sweet spaghetti and sugary garlic bread. McDelivery at midnight or at anytime.  Pizza with good topings or crazy weird things. Dumplings. Coffee and tea.  

I taught kids. Adorable little things. Classes galore.  For Kindy I did France, Australia, and Denmark, and this year Greece and Denmark. Older classes too many to list. Kids loved me and I loved them. I taught them and they taught me. Some days were the same but most were different.  Good and bad, exciting and boring,  new and old. The best memories are of my kids... but I cannot type it. It is unqualifiable. It is just the feeling and memories of it.

Seoul and Korea did get a little boring.  But so has everywhere i have lived. Ihave a constant need for adventure. As soon as where I am living starts closing in... i have to escape.  I dont know why. So I do love Korea but i just needed, well craved, a change. What change?  China. Shanghai. Also a big city like NYC and Seoul... but it is a city of 25 million in a country of a billion. Bigger than any other. A language that is made of pictographs instead of an alphabet (korean looks like pics, but it is an alphabet ). So thats what I'm up to.